And magic? That opened up a half dozen other new build paths. You could be a combat archer, or a stealth archer, or a stealth assassin using knives. Melee-based classes were the most straightforward, though you could still use a sword and shield, dual weapons, or a single heavy weapon.
The benefit of making multiple characters in Skyrim was that there were so many different ways to play the game because of all the different specialties you could spec into. 1) Making multiple characters in Fallout 4 doesn’t result in much different gameplay