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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6671511" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wordy but essentially correct.Ok, KM, I misspoke.  I said that a fighter would make a terrible ship's captain.  And a terrible captain in general.  Yup, I said that and that was sloppy.What I should have said is that a fighter would make a ship's captain, or captain in general, that is no better than the worst of all other classes and significantly worse than the best choice classes for those concepts.  Sorry, I shortened that to "fighters make terrible captains" when the more accurate statement would be, "Fighters, of all the classes, are no better or worse than the worst choices, but, considerably worse than the best choices."Is that clear enough?Nothing in the fighter class actually makes him a good leader.  And, considering that charisma does nothing for a fighter, taking a high Cha actually actively makes him worse at doing his specialisation, which is dealing damage to single targets.  Rangers and Bards both benefit from having high charisma.  A fighter can, possibly, grant a single move action 1/round at most half a dozen times or so per short rest.  A wizard can grant a full action to another character, with a bonus to AC and doubling the target's movement at least 1/day and at higher levels, several times per day.  There is very, very little that a fighter can do, outside of single target DPR that another character can't do as well or better.  Expertise makes a Bard a better wrestler than a fighter.  Put it another way, what can a fighter do that no one else can do better?</blockquote>

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