R_J_K75
Legend
What is the default assumption
Dont think there is or should be one. A first level fighter is whatever the player wants it to be.
What is the default assumption
Part of the issue here is that fighter, as a class, and soldier, as a profession, aren't the same thing. First, many fighters aren't soldiers, and second, many soldiers aren't fighters (in D&D terms).
The class is a lot more nuanced and flexible that simply being a measure of weapons training. You could build a character for any of the examples and make it work if you wanted to. Also, class in D&D isn't supposed to be a narrative straight jacket.
In class systems, what you can't do can be more defining than what you can. And nobody beats the champion fighter, on that score.Fighters, OTOH, are so broad that they aren't really a class. Just a collection of vaguely linked special abilities and a lack of anything supernatural.![]()
Heh, when it comes to the Fighter, thank goodness for 5e backgrounds.In class systems, what you can't do can be more defining than what you can. And nobody beats the champion fighter, on that score.