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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3670484" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>The point is that it matters whether or not you want your game to have traditional Fighter-types. You do not, as is clear from that post. In some games, I either specifically do not want them or else don't care. In many games, I do want to have them and I would rather Fighter/Ranger/Paladin be a standard for meleers than Swordsage/Warblade/Crusader, which I would like to be exotic. </p><p></p><p>To extend your kobold example, let's say you made a new campaign and called it "Kobold Adventures". One player says "I have this really cool idea for a Human who was raised by kobolds as a pet/slave and tries to emulate the dragons" so you allow it. One player says "It says in Races of the Dragon that kobolds and <insert one of those scaly races in RotD that is better> are allies. I'd like to be the emissary from them" so you allow it. One player winds up being a Half-Dragon Orc who has fallen in with the kobolds (yay for massive Strength adjustments!). Only the staunch roleplayer actually plays a kobold. And her character sucks. I would feel bad for her, since the stated adventure was supposed to have kobolds, and she played one, but everyone else was playing these weird things that were better. (For the sake of example, let's assume that you agree all my example choices are better than kobold. If not, feel free to replace them all with something that is).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3670484, member: 29014"] The point is that it matters whether or not you want your game to have traditional Fighter-types. You do not, as is clear from that post. In some games, I either specifically do not want them or else don't care. In many games, I do want to have them and I would rather Fighter/Ranger/Paladin be a standard for meleers than Swordsage/Warblade/Crusader, which I would like to be exotic. To extend your kobold example, let's say you made a new campaign and called it "Kobold Adventures". One player says "I have this really cool idea for a Human who was raised by kobolds as a pet/slave and tries to emulate the dragons" so you allow it. One player says "It says in Races of the Dragon that kobolds and <insert one of those scaly races in RotD that is better> are allies. I'd like to be the emissary from them" so you allow it. One player winds up being a Half-Dragon Orc who has fallen in with the kobolds (yay for massive Strength adjustments!). Only the staunch roleplayer actually plays a kobold. And her character sucks. I would feel bad for her, since the stated adventure was supposed to have kobolds, and she played one, but everyone else was playing these weird things that were better. (For the sake of example, let's assume that you agree all my example choices are better than kobold. If not, feel free to replace them all with something that is). [/QUOTE]
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