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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9176667" data-attributes="member: 20323">Well, I want to point out you are conflating two different things.1 - our shared desire for the fighter to be more interesting at higher levelsand2 - that Mihawk style anime &quot;not-magic&quot; is the solutionIMO, 2 is an answer to 1, but it is not exclusively the only answer to 1.I often play fighters (or similar no-magic characters) when I get the chance to play. I think the fighter class is flawed - and I know I'm in the minority, as most folks really enjoy it, and by the metrics we have it's very popular. Yet I still gravitate toward it despite the flaws I perceive. Because the &quot;armed only with my sword and my wits&quot; grounded fantasy appeals to me. Your answer for the design challenge of the fighter may be #2, and that's totally legitimate, but you lose the interest of players like me who enjoy the class precisely because of its &quot;mundanity.&quot;It's fine to implement solution #2, but I think it's important to consider what attracts players to run a hero lacking magical ability in the first place. And I think that's a shifting target based on audience, btw.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 9176667, member: 20323"] Well, I want to point out you are conflating two different things. 1 - our shared desire for the fighter to be more interesting at higher levels and 2 - that Mihawk style anime "not-magic" is the solution IMO, 2 is [I]an [/I]answer to 1, but it is not exclusively the only answer to 1. I often play fighters (or similar no-magic characters) when I get the chance to play. I think the fighter class is flawed - and I know I'm in the minority, as most folks really enjoy it, and by the metrics we have it's very popular. Yet I still gravitate toward it despite the flaws I perceive. Because the "armed only with my sword and my wits" [I]grounded [/I]fantasy appeals to me. Your answer for the design challenge of the fighter may be #2, and that's totally legitimate, but you lose the interest of players like me who enjoy the class precisely because of its "mundanity." It's fine to implement solution #2, but I think it's important to consider what attracts players to run a hero lacking magical ability in the first place. And I think that's a shifting target based on audience, btw. [/QUOTE]

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