Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

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I think people need to separate their role from their class and not let their class define the character.  Your class is nothing more than a set of skills and abilities, they should not define your role in the game.  So if you want to play a knight think about how you want that knight to be.  Heavy armour?  Mounted combat?  Sword and shield or two handed weapons?  Is he religious or not and if so how much so? Is he an outlaw or disgraced?  You could make a believable fantasy knight using the Cleric and Ranger classes as easily as Paladin or Fighter.  And the same goes for Samurai.  Or any other type of character you can imagine.  The class is only your skills, things like codes honour are your own choice to Role-play as part of the character.  If you want to play a character that has a personal code of honour or chivalry that specifically protects women then that’s totally fine you can do that because that’s role play.