This is gish propaganda. Nothing wrong with two barbs side by side soaking up damage together or two casters taking turns wiping the field from a tall spot.
Everyone could use a healer, though.
Healers aren’t rare. We just roll with each other.
My local stadium hires a security company called DPS. I stopped one of them and said “y’all’s comp is unbalanced, try sprinkling in some mages and tanks” and he had no idea what I was talking about.
Bystander laughed though so it wasn’t wasted time.
also consider polamory as you want the trifecta and maybe even an extra dps or two.
Half of all polycules come about solely to form an adequately-sized D&D campaign.
(Or so all the relevant polyam memes in my FB feed tell me.)
I was about to say that was probably a joke but then I thought about the other 2 couples I’ve done D&D with and, yeah, no, accurate
It checks out. A friend of mine GM’s for her sister and her sister’s two boyfriends.
Just make sure everyone has their WIS maxed out or you’ll have a bad time.
New existential crisis unlocked: what class am I?
First you got to have the existential crisis of figuring out what system you are playing. You can’t just assume D&D. Once you get that out of the way save room on your schedule for a smaller crisis about which edition you are dealing with…
OK but literally. I’m a healer. Started dating a tank main. Dps are a dime a dozen so we never have queue issues.