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Quoted from Painlord for awesomeness:

It's already fact that a party table doesn't need a balanced party to complete PFS scenarios. You don't need to play an X, Y, or Z to succeed...that's a myth that I wish I could stomp to death and beat into a non-resurrect-able mush then feed into a Sphere of Annihilation which I would then touch with a Rod of Cancellation.

I truly believe that the game is at its best when players are playing the characters that they want to play rather than feeling that they need to play an X, Y, or Z out of some misguided notion of 'balance'.

I get that you don't want to run the same thing as someone else. It's not a big issue for me, but understand how coming in the same costume to the holiday party might be embarrassing for some.

I, for one, won't tell people what I'm playing before the game starts. I do this for two reasons:

1) I don't want players determining what to play based of what I am playing because they mistakenly think we need an X, Y, or Z.
2) I don't want other players to expect me to do A, B, or C because my class can do those things. I find that to be incredibly annoying when players put class ahead of character when the primary objective should always be character ahead of class. I play characters who can (but may not) do A, B, or C. But I don't 'play' a class.

So, that said, there might be more players out there like me who aren't trying to annoy you when they don't help you decide what to play.

They might feel as I do...and it's not personal.