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What I would like to see occur in the next Playtest Packet, be that there are many starting options for a few classes, that there are many level 1, and level 0 spells, that there are many options to choose for maneuvers and that there is many more specialties and backgrounds. So that there is few classes but can be altered greatly, so that over even in the begginning there are very few with your powers and abilities.


What if there was just three classes: Fighting Men, Magic Users, and Clerics? But under each one would fall differant options such as under Fighting Men their could be Barbarian, Fighter, Rogue, Ranger and Warlord, what would be important is that they may all share some basic abilties but would also have narrower and more specific abilities based on what they're choices are. 


OR Maybe, you could have a magic using barbarian, where they use primitive combat magic that does primal damage? In a barbaric way, such as destructive uses and also increasing power at the loss of control over the spells they cast?

And as for Clerics, you could have a buffing class and helaing class, but also a melee variation, that would mix between fighting men (have some basic fighting characteristics) and clerics, so would be also able to heal themselves in combat or have melee advancing buff spells.

beauty in simplicity, and fighting men was one of the original classes in dungeons and dragons. The original 3 part pamphlet series by Gary Gygax.

I don't like that idea. I like having a lot of classes and options within it like archtypes. Super simplification sounds less fun and appealin in my opinion.

I'd like to see PrCs done away with. They only seem like they were made for breaking the game further than intended. It seems, if you wanted to, you could make an archtype of what ever PrC you wanted. Take Arcane Archer for example. You could make it either a Wizard or Sorcerer that fights with a bow and give it imbue arrow and other magical thingys at different levels and you don't have to worry about taking certain feats and spec'ing in the right class to achieve it. 

But back on topic.. 3 classes seems too simple.. I kinda like having the Rogue, and then you have like 20 different flavors of a Rogue to choose from.. the other classes though could use more flavoring like Wizard or Fighter.. A balance of simpleness seems to be what they're going for, and looks good. Making it too simple might harm it more than help it.

I'd rather see all the classes from every edition be present or a completely classless system.  I don't see why 3 is better than 60 or 0 in this regard.  Design in this regard I feel should be a little more "all or nothing".  If there are to be classes, embrace that and use them all.