Quote Originally Posted by The Dragon View Post
I dislike the idea of class design encouraging rocket tag.
That's like saying Frank and K encourage T1, or Emperor Tippy encourages infinite wish loops and teleportation circle abuse. Frank and K acknowledges that, in reality, T1 is how the game is played at any half-decent optimisation level, and makes classes to match that. Emperor Tippy acknowledges that, in reality, if wizards were actually sensible, they'd abuse the game rules, so he makes a campaign setting to match that. D&D is basically going to be rocket tag, so your class either needs to be able to join in with it (barbarian), get out of its way (fighter with high AC), actually tank the amount of damage it does (probably barbarian again) or do something which is so crazily meta-busting that it's probably unreliable and liable to get you killed (truenamer with mortalbane, StS and REN abuse). I'm not really encouraging it, I'm joining in with it.