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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Consider a fighter. Fighters are cool and powerful! They get to hit their opponent 5% more often than a regular untrained peasant. Wizards can set people on fire with their mind. A fighter is better than *nothing* but not better than the available alternative.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Because games are games, the decisions come with training wheels. You're told that you can pick 1 class and no more than that, you're told about all the abilities up-front, and you can even read the Monster Manual to see what you're up against. So it's relatively easy to determine "better."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There are situations in which being able to swing sword good is more desirable than turning someone's brain into scorpions (long-duration endurance campaigns, for instance). In those situations, the fighter is better than the wizard - but the wizard is still better than nothing.

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