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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 8710802" data-attributes="member: 3424">You know, this talk about subclasses for every class made me remember a late 4e mechanic which I thought could have resulted in the most flexible character customization system ever, and it could only have happened in 4e because of the much hated-on (by many of its detractors) AEDU power structure. For those of you who played late 4e, do you remember character themes? For those of you who did not, themes were a collection of powers that supported a specific character archetype, such as Gladiator, Primal Guardian, or Elemental Priest (these were from the Dark Sun Campaign Setting). Because of the AEDU power structure, you could just replace one or more of your class powers with a power of the same level from one of your themes without significantly affecting balance. (This is also similar to how 4e multiclassing worked and why it was the most balanced multiclassing system in D&D.) So you could have a fighter who was also an Elemental Priest, for example. So, if Strixhaven had been implemented in 4E, WotC could have made all the colleges into themes. As for the ranger, you could have a Beast Master theme, a Giant Killer theme, a Desert Adept theme and so on.</blockquote>