Class Ability...Feat...or Spell?

[Crissa]

Okay, I've been looking at classes for a friend's game - yes he still says I'm a powergamer - and I've become very puzzled.

The classes seem to be spread between:
[*]Take part in BAB wangfest
[*]Take part in skillwang rolling
[*]Win the game with magic wangbuilding.

But these three aspects of the game never seem to meet. And classes... Some have levels that are a class ability that is literally a spell that's on the cleric's list.

So, uhh... Why?

I'm hard pressed to figure out how classes who have a spellbook are supposed to play the game with other classes whose entire ability list is merely a page out of a book.

Then again, I'm hard pressed to figure out why a game that has mounted charges doesn't use the same mechanics for a unicorn charging as well.

-Crissa

[josephbt]

Which classes are we talking about?