I would have liked the Knight to become a core class. For much the same reason as Mystic, I like alternative divine casters, and the Archivist has been one of my "go to" solutions for a priest character that's more studious and ministerial and less "running around smacking people with a mace". I would have liked the Archivist to become a core class. I know Favored Soul was more popular, but I liked the "flavor" of the Mystic better, and Favored Soul literally sprouting wings at high level seemed rather wacky and out-of-nowhere. I liked the idea of a spontaneous divine caster, and I really never liked that the default standard for a divine caster in a D&D world is a heavily armored combat cleric. I would have liked the Mystic (or Favored Soul) to become a core class. They weren't useless in a fight (medium armor, martial weapons, middle BAB, some leadership-themed buffing abilities similar to bard songs), but they really could shine in a social or political adventure. I would have loved to see the Noble class become standard, as a non-spellcasting class option (I don't like that it seems most classes have innately supernatural/spellcasting abilities and there's very limited support for a low-magic game) and an option for social-oriented characters. I always thought that was a curious choice, as at least in the gaming circles I ran with it was NOT a popular class, and its general concept seemed like just a Sorcerer with different roleplaying. Only one of the classes introduced became core in the later editions, the Warlock, originally from Complete Arcane. Mostly prestige classes, but definitely a good number of new base classes. D&D 3.x gave us a wonderful proliferation of character classes for the game.
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