'slight' emphasis towards control? At low levels, you may as well just not play some of the classes. Fighter especially. Everything they do, a Paladin or Barbarian can do better. They get no more feats than anyone else, which is the only way they can differentiate themselves from the other fighty types. a Rogue gets in and out better, a monk has built in two handed fighting, a Paldin has almost the same good points and also gets spells and can heal other people as well as themselves (And BETTER).

Before you get that first feat, when everyone else gets theirs as well, you're CLEARLY inferior to a Paladin.

....I just looked it up. You have to CHOOSE if you want a feat or a stat boost at level four?! What bullshittery is this?!

Yeah, this is not flexible AT ALL. And the only level 4 feat for a fighter in the SRD appears to be GRAPPLER. Who the FRICK makes a grappler fighter?

.....wait, are you only supposed to do a point buy up to 16? In the SRD chargen?

This entire thing is bullshit.