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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9372247" data-attributes="member: 11760">The problem with those, unfortunately, is that, as we can see in this thread, that a hybrid arcane spellcaster/melee fighter encompasses a lot of different archetypes. Many of them play very differently. And since none of them has a distinct name, anyone who comes up with a solution that works for them is immediately told by a bunch of people that they've completely failed to capture their concept, because there really isn't a vocabulary to differentiate all these takes beyond, I guess, "I want to play Elric," "I want to play a Dying Earth character," "I want to play some anime character that Whizbang will use the wrong name for," etc.I am confident that WotC thought they were nailing it with the arcane archer, eldritch knight and bladesinger, likely because those prestige/subclasses did match what the people in-house were looking for, only to run into the problem that there are so many, many different takes on this and people are extremely attached to each of them.Both with psionics and gish, I don't think WotC can really win, since they're up against hundreds of thousands of perfect versions of the concepts in hundreds of thousands of different heads.</blockquote>