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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5857616" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Now I've just noticed that you are "Working on my own RPG rules", so perhaps you are indeed looking for how to make these concepts useful in your setting too.</p><p></p><p>One additional point to consider, is whether you want these concepts of feat to be <em>mandatory</em> or <em>optional</em>.</p><p></p><p>For instance, one setting could be such, that everyone must choose one and only regional feat at character creation (assuming the region is chosen first...). Another setting may give you the option to choose it in place of your 1st level regular feat. Another setting again may give you the option to choose as many regional feats offered by your region, any time during character advancement you gain a regular feat. Or even, you could grant a specific number of regional feats every X level, in addition to regular feats, and so on...</p><p></p><p>It all depends how much you want to stress the idea of culture/race of origin in your setting. Same thing goes for ancestor feats (how much you want to really stress the importance of family/clan) and background feats (how much you want to stress that the importance of downtime vs adventuring in your PC's development).</p><p></p><p>So the questions that each of these three types of feat raise are:</p><p>- do these feats require to be chosen at character creation (1st level) or can they also be chosen later?</p><p>- does each character have to take a specific number of these (are they separated from regular feats)? is there a minimum or maximum number? or can they be taken freely as regular feats?</p><p>- can you choose only one region/ancestor or multiple ones?</p><p>- do these concept merge together, e.g. you can only have either a region or an ancestor?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 5857616, member: 1465"] Now I've just noticed that you are "Working on my own RPG rules", so perhaps you are indeed looking for how to make these concepts useful in your setting too. One additional point to consider, is whether you want these concepts of feat to be [I]mandatory[/I] or [I]optional[/I]. For instance, one setting could be such, that everyone must choose one and only regional feat at character creation (assuming the region is chosen first...). Another setting may give you the option to choose it in place of your 1st level regular feat. Another setting again may give you the option to choose as many regional feats offered by your region, any time during character advancement you gain a regular feat. Or even, you could grant a specific number of regional feats every X level, in addition to regular feats, and so on... It all depends how much you want to stress the idea of culture/race of origin in your setting. Same thing goes for ancestor feats (how much you want to really stress the importance of family/clan) and background feats (how much you want to stress that the importance of downtime vs adventuring in your PC's development). So the questions that each of these three types of feat raise are: - do these feats require to be chosen at character creation (1st level) or can they also be chosen later? - does each character have to take a specific number of these (are they separated from regular feats)? is there a minimum or maximum number? or can they be taken freely as regular feats? - can you choose only one region/ancestor or multiple ones? - do these concept merge together, e.g. you can only have either a region or an ancestor? [/QUOTE]
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