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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 4595586" data-attributes="member: 28487">There was nothing vague about it. 25 or so years ago when I started playing D&amp;D and other pnp rpgs the roles were clear enough, it was just that the termnology had not stabilised and did not until the kind of large distributed communities that the MMOs created came into being. Though fighters were routinely refered to tanks then and some wizard builds as nukers. About the only MMO role that is pure MMO is the DPS. That is because in earlier D&amp;D the thief was the trap and lock guy and did not feature in combat.&nbsp;The role was changed in MMOs to be more combat effective because there is more combat and in old skool D&amp;D alot traps were disabled by metagame techniques based on DM description of the trap, player interrogation of hte DM and to fact that the imagination of the players and DM in the only limitation on terrain interactivity.MMO terrain is quite limited in what you can do with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 4595586, member: 28487"] There was nothing vague about it. 25 or so years ago when I started playing D&D and other pnp rpgs the roles were clear enough, it was just that the termnology had not stabilised and did not until the kind of large distributed communities that the MMOs created came into being. Though fighters were routinely refered to tanks then and some wizard builds as nukers. About the only MMO role that is pure MMO is the DPS. That is because in earlier D&D the thief was the trap and lock guy and did not feature in combat. The role was changed in MMOs to be more combat effective because there is more combat and in old skool D&D alot traps were disabled by metagame techniques based on DM description of the trap, player interrogation of hte DM and to fact that the imagination of the players and DM in the only limitation on terrain interactivity. MMO terrain is quite limited in what you can do with it. [/QUOTE]

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