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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7377508" data-attributes="member: 29398">Each of these is its own separate class right from the start (no 'prestige classes' etc.) thus for example a Knight is a Knight and a Fighter is a Fighter.  I've blocked them together just for ease of parsing.Fighter - versatile warrior type, str basedCavalier/Knight - heavy metal tank, str and con basedRanger - woodsy warriors, can use magical herbs but not spells, light or heavy armour, based more on Aragorn or Robin Hood than that gawdawful Drizz't, con basedArcher/Swashbuckler - light-armour dex and str based warriorThief - versatile sneaky type, dex basedAssassin - sneaky killing type, str and dex basedScout/Spy - information gatherer, int and dex basedMonk - sneaky 'martial arts' type, no armour, few or no weapons other than hands-feet, based on all stats (i.e. no stat is primary but all must be at least 12)Cleric - generic divine caster, good healer, wis basedWar Cleric - battle-focused divine caster, poor healer, wis and str basedPaladin - battle-focused divine leader, mediocre healer, wis and cha basedDruid/Nature Cleric - nature oriented divine caster, best healer, wis basedMage - generic flexible arcane-caster type, merges all magic schools except those noted below, int basedIllusionist - arcane mind-trickery including pain, int and dex basedNecromancer - makes things dead then plays with the corpses, arcane (NOT divine!) caster, int and cha basedBard - sonic-based abilities rather than spells, can fight and sneak a bit, no healing, int and cha basedNote what is intentionally missing - there's no attempt to combine what should be separate classes.  No Arcane Trickster, for example.  There's also no Sorcerer or Warlock - Sorcerer is just a Mage under a different name (and ideally all casters would use the Sorcerer mechanics so even less reason to keep it as separate) and the whole dark-pact thing with Warlocks can be an optional background for any class (with few if any benefits for the PC and a lot of headaches!) rather than restricted to just one.And no Warlord.  In-party leadership should be open to any class as a non-mechanics-based outgrowth of roleplay, and at-distance healing e.g. Second Wind should not exist IMO.Lan-"and if you really want to play a Fighter and a Mage, play one of each rather than trying to combine them into one character"-efan</blockquote>

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