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2 years ago  ::  Jun 13, 2008 - 8:49PM #1
WotC_Mearls
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At the Seattle game day event, I did an interview with Gamer Radio Zero and was asked about the classes in the PH 2. It was a long, hectic day, and I had very little sleep, so I managed to get some of the initials wrong. Anyway, here are the correct ones:

B
B
D
I
S
S
T
W

There is no R class. I have no idea how my brain inserted that letter into the sequence.
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 13, 2008 - 11:45PM #2
Wizardman
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WotC Mearls wrote:

At the Seattle game day event, I did an interview with Gamer Radio Zero and was asked about the classes in the PH 2. It was a long, hectic day, and I had very little sleep, so I managed to get some of the initials wrong. Anyway, here are the correct ones:

B
B
D
I
S
S
T
W

There is no R class. I have no idea how my brain inserted that letter into the sequence.


No R? Thanks for the clarification, sir.

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2 years ago  ::  Jun 13, 2008 - 11:55PM #3
Reneshat
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You said some of these have never been seen in D&D before? Not even 1ed? How many are familiar, and how many are new? I figure 4 of them (at the least) are old favorites, but knowing how many we haven't seen before would help in the pointless speculation. :D
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 14, 2008 - 2:58AM #4
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Your brain latched onto the R sound in bard. That's what I predict happened.

Having sussed out what four of the classes will be, I'll just have to keep my WITS about me for clues as to the identity of the others. I reckon there's going to be at least one pet/summoner class. Will see if I'm right or wrong when the time comes.
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 14, 2008 - 4:14AM #5
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For more clues, you can watch the full interview with Mister Mearls, which was just posted today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNtc4sJTdWc
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 14, 2008 - 7:21AM #6
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Hmm, I just listened to the interview and it invalidated a couple of my guesses, but I'll finish putting them down.

Well, the obvious ones out of the way
Bard
Barbarian
Druid

I was going to guess shadow for the second power source, giving
Illusionist
Shadowblade

But he said only 3 were done previously so that would rule out the Illusionist. Unless it's something semantic.

I thought the following two could fit for more castery options:
Shaman
Theurge

And I was actually kinda baffled on this one for a bit...
W

Witch Doctor? Wyrd? Wraith something. Anyhow, if illusionist (or a variant) is off the table I'm less sure on I. Someone else can guess it, I'm sure
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 14, 2008 - 8:29PM #7
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I was thining Swashbuckler might be one of the S's.
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 14, 2008 - 8:42PM #8
Elderac
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Make that "thinking". Gleemax doesn't seem to let us edit our own posts yet.
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2 years ago  ::  Jun 15, 2008 - 12:00AM #9
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Reneshat wrote:

You said some of these have never been seen in D&D before? Not even 1ed? How many are familiar, and how many are new? I figure 4 of them (at the least) are old favorites, but knowing how many we haven't seen before would help in the pointless speculation. :D


Three are completely and utterly new. The rest are either classes or old concepts revisited.

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2 years ago  ::  Jun 15, 2008 - 4:05AM #10
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WotC Mearls wrote:

Three are completely and utterly new. The rest are either classes or old concepts revisited.


Aha! That seems different to what I mistakenly heard (and people have been repeating) in that it was 3 that were old, everything else was new.

I predict W, I and T will be completely new while S for Shaman (Primal) will be an oldie (with Bard, Barbarian and Druid already given to us by someone else and Sorcerer mentioned as having its first draft completed).

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