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Which standard classes have you never (or very rarely) seen played? (Edited)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 7865997" data-attributes="member: 6750235"><p>Here is chart to show the initial classes from each edition. Essentials includes Fallen Lands and Forgotten Kingdoms.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]116526[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>NOTES:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bards are included in 1e on a technicality. They were optional and different in design but they were in the PHB.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Illusionists were the 1e example of the specialist wizard with a comment that others could exist. It's been grouped with the 2e specialists. The 2e specialist was barely a separate class from the mage under the wizard heading.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rangers are broken in to spell casting and non-spell casting versions. Essentials gave us both in that one was using the primal power source and the other the martial. Technically a class called "ranger" was in each edition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The thief was a base class in 1e and a subclass of rogue in 5e but the difference is not worth differentiating. The rogue is clearly the evolution of the thief.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Clerics, fighters, paladins, rangers, rogues, and wizards existed as standard classes consistently. With the exception of waiting for the PHB2 in 4e so did druids.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Assassins and warlords as standard classes each only existed in a single edition. Non-magical rangers as the default only existed in a single edition as well because of the primal rangers in Essentials.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Before 5e, barbarians and sorcerers also had only existed in a single edition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">4e's PHB2 is worth noting in having come out relatively quickly after the PHB1 to give back barbarians, bards, druids, and sorcerers.</li> </ul><p>That's my recollection of the "base classes". 5e classes are the only current base classes, however; the others were base classes in the past and that is no longer true. That includes warlords.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashrym, post: 7865997, member: 6750235"] Here is chart to show the initial classes from each edition. Essentials includes Fallen Lands and Forgotten Kingdoms. [ATTACH type="full"]116526[/ATTACH] NOTES: [LIST] [*]Bards are included in 1e on a technicality. They were optional and different in design but they were in the PHB. [*]Illusionists were the 1e example of the specialist wizard with a comment that others could exist. It's been grouped with the 2e specialists. The 2e specialist was barely a separate class from the mage under the wizard heading. [*]Rangers are broken in to spell casting and non-spell casting versions. Essentials gave us both in that one was using the primal power source and the other the martial. Technically a class called "ranger" was in each edition. [*]The thief was a base class in 1e and a subclass of rogue in 5e but the difference is not worth differentiating. The rogue is clearly the evolution of the thief. [*]Clerics, fighters, paladins, rangers, rogues, and wizards existed as standard classes consistently. With the exception of waiting for the PHB2 in 4e so did druids. [*]Assassins and warlords as standard classes each only existed in a single edition. Non-magical rangers as the default only existed in a single edition as well because of the primal rangers in Essentials. [*]Before 5e, barbarians and sorcerers also had only existed in a single edition. [*]4e's PHB2 is worth noting in having come out relatively quickly after the PHB1 to give back barbarians, bards, druids, and sorcerers. [/LIST] That's my recollection of the "base classes". 5e classes are the only current base classes, however; the others were base classes in the past and that is no longer true. That includes warlords. [/QUOTE]
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