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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7919887" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I think part of the issue is that subclasses, like Paragon Paths and Prestige classes before them exist in a kind of nebulous space where there sort of supposed to correspond to game world institutions and realities and sort of not.On the one hand Samurai is just a fighting style with an evocative name, on the other hand they get Elegant Courtier at level 7, which only syncs with the rest of what the class does if we take the title seriously.Certainly we get enough fluff thrown in about various Paladin Oaths that it hardly seems out of line for the DM to take that fluff seriously and insist that players stick to it (otherwise what exactly is it for?).&nbsp; On the other hand, many of us aren't playing in the default setting (which is mostly non-existent anyway), so we feel free to ignore a lot of the fluff.There is something very annoying and basically...inelegant, about the idea of a setting that has a Samurai social class, and a samurai subclass, but these don't sync up in anyway.&nbsp; But at the same time it would seem wrong to insist someone play the subclass when a battlemaster can fulfill the concept just as well (and of course if a knight can be a paladin then why not a Samurai?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 7919887, member: 6687260"] I think part of the issue is that subclasses, like Paragon Paths and Prestige classes before them exist in a kind of nebulous space where there sort of supposed to correspond to game world institutions and realities and sort of not. On the one hand Samurai is just a fighting style with an evocative name, on the other hand they get Elegant Courtier at level 7, which only syncs with the rest of what the class does if we take the title seriously. Certainly we get enough fluff thrown in about various Paladin Oaths that it hardly seems out of line for the DM to take that fluff seriously and insist that players stick to it (otherwise what exactly is it for?). On the other hand, many of us aren't playing in the default setting (which is mostly non-existent anyway), so we feel free to ignore a lot of the fluff. There is something very annoying and basically...inelegant, about the idea of a setting that has a Samurai social class, and a samurai subclass, but these don't sync up in anyway. But at the same time it would seem wrong to insist someone play the subclass when a battlemaster can fulfill the concept just as well (and of course if a knight can be a paladin then why not a Samurai?). [/QUOTE]

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