Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-38854975-20190905144044/@comment-25396609-20191010021554

Not everyone plays the same way, though. You may prefer a striker role, but not everyone does; it largely comes down to personality and mindset. This applies to real life, as well as other fantasy (and sci-fi) settings.

Personally, I tend to fluctuate between melee striker and support depending on who I'm playing with and what game; never once has my presence made things worse, and we would have failed a number of encounters without me being specced as a healer.

Having once played as part of a group that was nothing but strikers and tanks, once you get into high-level encounters, you are FUCKED without either a healer or a massive stockpile of potions.

Take Jaune for example; essentially a paladin or bard. During the fight at Haven, Weiss (the archetypal mage of the group) would have LITERALLY DIED without him, a healer, present.

Let people make the character they want to make, the objective of these threads isn't to dictate what someone is allowed to do; it's to help them do it the RIGHT way. Making sure they play by the rules of the setting, and that their concepts are executed in a way that makes logical sense.