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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6667373" data-attributes="member: 996">You're making them sound even more diverse than they really are, too.&nbsp; Thieves' &amp; Assassins' Sneak Attack is fairly high DPR, and the Berserker's 'Brute type' also hits hard.&nbsp;&nbsp; In combat, they're all essentially(pi) 'strikers.'&nbsp; &nbsp;It's hard to find any D&amp;D class in genre, really.&nbsp; It's always been slanted towards the daily 'Vancian' mechanic which, at best, gives a highly abstract modeling of how heroic fantasy characters perform.&nbsp; That is characters in genre may cast spells sparing or perform a particular remarkable or superhuman feat only once in the course of a story, but they aren't memorizing spells or expending daily uses or otherwise managing some tightly-defined resource.&nbsp;Sure, the details change.&nbsp; But, yes, the ranger's thing could be mainly about surviving or being familiar with the environment. Thus, like other casters, it would tend represent a McGuffin or exposition character in genre:&nbsp; one who's there not for his own story, but to enable moving the story to a hostile environment, and inform the audience how it works and what heroes are going to need to do...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6667373, member: 996"] You're making them sound even more diverse than they really are, too. Thieves' & Assassins' Sneak Attack is fairly high DPR, and the Berserker's 'Brute type' also hits hard. In combat, they're all essentially(pi) 'strikers.' It's hard to find any D&D class in genre, really. It's always been slanted towards the daily 'Vancian' mechanic which, at best, gives a highly abstract modeling of how heroic fantasy characters perform. That is characters in genre may cast spells sparing or perform a particular remarkable or superhuman feat only once in the course of a story, but they aren't memorizing spells or expending daily uses or otherwise managing some tightly-defined resource. Sure, the details change. But, yes, the ranger's thing could be mainly about surviving or being familiar with the environment. Thus, like other casters, it would tend represent a McGuffin or exposition character in genre: one who's there not for his own story, but to enable moving the story to a hostile environment, and inform the audience how it works and what heroes are going to need to do... [/QUOTE]

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