Unless you use a character creation system that progresses a character through each stage in their lives up to now, it is what you're doing, whether you prefer to think about it that way or not. Race and class partly determine how the character interacts mechanically with the game world.
I would like a life path as an option, yes. In any case, a character that starts as a class feels unrealistic to me. As you said in the other thread though, I guess we have to always go with what the majority wants.
Yeah they unnecessarily complicate it because Pathfinder. It's a whole mini game where you have to work backwards and read a textbook just so that you can... choose the ASIs that benefit your class.
Character creation isn't "realistic," never has been.
You take every piece you can get, and every piece you lose makes me just a little sadder.
Making the structure mirror actual play is a good thing: and putting Class first is how I see people conceive characters. That's the point of a Class system.
I see quite a lot of people trying to contort the predefined classes & subclasses to fit their specific concepts, myself. Or doing homebrew classes like I mentioned elsewhere. With all these digital platforms that is both easier & harder to do, just in different ways.
People would conceive characters differently if the material was presented differently.
It's been presented Race then Class for as far back as I can remember, yet people would still start with a Class concept then hash out the details. Thst makes this change particularly sensible to me, because people are already following a certain pattern in spite of the structure, making the structure follow the path people tend towards will probably make the game more accessible.
Fine. I'm glad they're designing the new version of D&D to what are apparently your exact specifications.
