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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terraism" data-source="post: 3672157" data-attributes="member: 278">Gotcha.  I use it a bit more generally - covers both mechanics and feel.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yeah, I expected that - which is why I haven't just striken out the blatantly mystical ones and said "here goes, go ahead and play with the reduced list."  In many cases, I suspect I'll be able to make relatively small mechanical tweaks that remove the mystical element enough  to satisfy me without changing the rules too much.  I don't have my book handy right now, but changing, for example, the Desert Wind maneuvers that add fire damage to the attack to a form of precision damage would probably not be a large-scale balance change, but it'd fit the tone of my world better.I know.  I seem to recall debating the role of the fighter with you a few times before, every time I've suggested boosting them up a bit.  Really what it boils down to is that I'm very fond of the design methodology that includes a small number of highly customizable base classes (with reason to take them to their end point,) versus many more specific classes.  I don't, for instance, see any need to have both a Duskblade and a Hexblade class - one "mystical warrior" class with options that could lean either way would serve better, in my eyes.  Of course, that's getting really far afield, so I'll stop now.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So do I.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  I just tend more towards the Iron Heroes[/]-style, nonmagical nice things.  That's not to say I don't like the idea of a mystical fighter, but I feel it's a niche that should be covered by only a small portion of the martially-focused classes, not the majority.</blockquote>

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