Originally Posted by
Kizara
I have found this thread very interesting.
I find it amusing that people feel a book isn't overpowered or unfair, yet its so good that you recommend that to be fair you allow anyone with non-ToB classes to trade them in.
Alot of the newer melee classes are overpowered, compare PHB2 knight with, say, the knight protector PRC or with fighter. Compare beguiler to bard.
Compare duskblade to ranger.
Does ToB continue this trend? Sure, that doesn't make it good though.
Does the book have interesting flavour in it? I don't know, maybe it does, but that's besides the point.
Melee classes were never meant to have the power that casting classes do at the highest levels, trying to give them that just makes them overpowered in general.