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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5965351" data-attributes="member: 29398">I thought defined roles were Going Away in 5e, both for PCs and monsters; and this made me happy.&nbsp; Now it's not so certain...The problem with defined roles is that people tend to - even subconsciously - try to fit those roles whether it makes sense or not.&nbsp; For example, in 4e a Fighter is defined as a Defender...fair enough, but if someone has a character in mind that is a Fighter by class but ends up more like a Striker by role, the box they have to think outside of is just that little bit thicker.I say leave out the named roles, but in each class' writeup put in a paragraph about several things it can be good at, maybe verging into the territory of multiple 4e-style roles in the process.&nbsp; In other words, leave it more up to the player's imagination as to what each character can bring to the party... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5965351, member: 29398"] I thought defined roles were Going Away in 5e, both for PCs and monsters; and this made me happy. Now it's not so certain... The problem with defined roles is that people tend to - even subconsciously - try to fit those roles whether it makes sense or not. For example, in 4e a Fighter is defined as a Defender...fair enough, but if someone has a character in mind that is a Fighter by class but ends up more like a Striker by role, the box they have to think outside of is just that little bit thicker. I say leave out the named roles, but in each class' writeup put in a paragraph about several things it can be good at, maybe verging into the territory of multiple 4e-style roles in the process. In other words, leave it more up to the player's imagination as to what each character can bring to the party... :) Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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