Required Class/Rank failed - Can we have Optimal Rank and Favoured Class back?

[Fensfield]

Hah, if only!

I'd love it to bits if they kicked out these stupid restrictions on which pair of pants I can wear but god knows, if you don't like not being able to wear a particular hat because there's a pointy bit of metal dangling from your belt (or, god forbid, it's green!) you're some sort of whiney freak apparently.

Hell, I'd be happy if they'd only throw out the Discipline restrictions and kept the ones on rank, but I still don't get what was wrong with just really, really ramping up the penalties for wielding the super-elaborate sword your inexperienced gladiator ought have no clue how to use properly, or the bloody great cuirass he's not trained enough to be anything but turned into a slow-moving tinned meal by.

What, do these things just shoot off to one side if we try to touch them now? Is there some sort of repulsive energy field keyed only to the hands of those carrying a particular form of foe-thumping implement?

Still, at least they've promised to remove that bloody colour-locking mechanic..