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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 6227604" data-attributes="member: 51930">In short?  Customization.  If you're going to have one, that's likely an aspect of it: how to make your fighter unlike the other fighter at the table is the skills or feats.Granted, CharOp usually directs you towards particular builds.  All Wizards will take Arcane knowledge and, say, Endurance for the spell interrupts.  Still, I'd say there's customization involved.  Otherwise classes can be fairly cookie cutter.  What if I wanted to play a pirate rather than a knight?  Or a barbarian-style fighter?  Or if the campaign is set in high mountains rather than in the midst of noble family negotiations (ie: mountaineering rather than diplomacy)?  Or if my fighter keeps screwing up jumps over pits and wants some extra help?  Simply fighting won't do it, you need... something.</blockquote>