Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
they are setting a precedent that jobs can have not much to do with the classes they come from
Don't forget that this is subjective and that classes themselves, aside from the dealings of their guild, don't have any particular identity besides that particular weapon proficiency. To use your example, a pugilist (fist-fighter) becoming an engineer is only strange if you hold the subjective link that there is a necessary correlation between pugilism and becoming a monk.

Who is to say that engineer would not prefer to fight with his fists while he's not fixing things?

And, I'll keep saying this as long as it keeps coming up - who is to say it makes less sense for a minstrel who wants to do combat to use a bow than a dagger? If your method of contributing to a battle is keeping morale high through song, my guess is that you don't like being all that close to the danger. Never-the-less, storywise, if I'm bringing a bard on a mission to do battle, he better be helping out with more than just morale - and if he's not curing, he better be fighting. If he prefers to be far from the actual danger, I suppose he better pick up a bow.

Barcher.