Design & Development: PC Roles

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Check out this new article Wizards of the Coast posted recently:

Design & Development: PC Roles (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20070831a)

The game has always encouraged a balanced party, based on roles. The new rules take that concept a step further, as Rob shows us with a first look at the leader.

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Why is it this is starting to sound like a PC-game instead of a roleplaying game? "A certain amount of healing flows from the Leader classes even when they opt to focus on slaying their enemies directly." Maybe I'm just not conceptualizing it, but that isn't making much sense to me in a roleplaying context. It sounds like something straight out of a MMPOG.