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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6503568" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>For someone who is accusing others of not reading, I'd hope you'd read yourself. So far your "read the 2e book, it's explicit" was wrong, and you're wrong about the 4e just being a suggestion. Go back and read page 15 and 16 of the 4e PHB. it flat out tells you that your PC needs to specialize in a role, and on the next page it says (doesn't suggest, but defines as): Controller (Wizard), Defender (fighter/paladin), etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course everyone who is experienced in RPGs knows hardly anything is a firm set in stone rule. But the book clearly implies that class X = role Y, and with a lot more firmness than a casual suggestion. It literally defines the roles as such. It seems like you are playing very fast and loose with the actual text to support your point while at the same time relying on the text RAW to try to make it, and that's just odd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6503568, member: 15700"] For someone who is accusing others of not reading, I'd hope you'd read yourself. So far your "read the 2e book, it's explicit" was wrong, and you're wrong about the 4e just being a suggestion. Go back and read page 15 and 16 of the 4e PHB. it flat out tells you that your PC needs to specialize in a role, and on the next page it says (doesn't suggest, but defines as): Controller (Wizard), Defender (fighter/paladin), etc. Of course everyone who is experienced in RPGs knows hardly anything is a firm set in stone rule. But the book clearly implies that class X = role Y, and with a lot more firmness than a casual suggestion. It literally defines the roles as such. It seems like you are playing very fast and loose with the actual text to support your point while at the same time relying on the text RAW to try to make it, and that's just odd. [/QUOTE]
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