D&D General Which of these should be core classes for D&D?

[Reynard]

If we use WotC's 70% playtest rule, only the Fighter, Thief, Cleric and Wizard should be core classes in the next iteration of D&D. And I would be totally on board.

 

[Lanefan]

If we use WotC's 70% playtest rule, only the Fighter, Thief, Cleric and Wizard should be core classes in the next iteration of D&D. And I would be totally on board.

And it's perhaps worth noting that for all the gnashing of teeth about how lagging Fighters are and nearly always have been, they're still leading the poll.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Can we at least keep one good class that isn't the Rogue?

Or just the Rogue?

 

[Reynard]

Can we at least keep one good class that isn't the Rogue?

Or just the Rogue?

According to this poll, there aren't any. Sorry, that's democracy.

 

[Vaalingrade]

And it's perhaps worth noting that for all the gnashing of teeth about how lagging Fighters are and nearly always have been, they're still leading the poll.

The poll is what class should be core, not what class is good or well designed.

I know I voted Fighter on condition that it be done well this time.

 

[Vaalingrade]

According to this poll, there aren't any. Sorry, that's democracy.

Time to subvert it with a ton of money passed to the right people to put their thumb on the scale.

That's modern democracy.

 

[Tony Vargas]

And it's perhaps worth noting that for all the gnashing of teeth about how lagging Fighters are and nearly always have been, they're still leading the poll.

It wouldn't be an effective trap choice if no one was ever caught by it.

People who want to play fighters whether they're balanced or strictly inferior, vote that it should be included.
People who want the fighter to be better vote that it should be included (it can't get better if its cut).
People who enjoy feeling superior to those who play fighters vote that it should be included.

Who votes against the fighter? Maybe if you're anti-traditionalist for it's own sake you vote against all the big 4?

 

[Vaalingrade]

Statistics can mean anything you want if you just don't examine the underlying reasons for them.

14% of all people know that.