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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clay_More" data-source="post: 4370635" data-attributes="member: 9813">Howdy Crothian, the all-mighty denizen of post-countage. Despite their initial simplicity, I think the house-rules you mention make sense. While the character creation process you mention isn't really a "house-rule" per say, but more of an alternative way of addressing the character creation process, I still think it is better choice if you're playing a campaign heavily focused on actual roleplaying, with encounters having the option to be solved without resorting to heavy dice-rolling. I can imagine a few problems when handling a character from his personality before his stats, depending on the way you create you characters. What if the stats you end up with make it difficult to create the character you had in mind (won't be a problem if you don't use dice-rolling though), will the player be able to mold his character realistically compared to his personality? Especially at lower levels when you don't have access to many feats, skill points and PrC's I could imagine it would be quite a challenge to make an idea fit with the actual stats. I guess it greatly depends on the players. The idea of a player-driven campaign isn't bad, I've done that quite a bit before (actually, my group tends to turn campaigns into player-driven campaigns quite easily). Many of my players come up with ideas and goals they want to fulfill. A rogue in my group, for example, focused heavily on building up a good reputation amongst the local thieves as well as building a social network amongst the lower nobles in the city, to gain both information as well as possible clients for shady deals. He found the lower nobility much easier to influence, as the higher nobility have a tendency to be a bit more arrogant, and they have a tendency to be very well-set when it comes to economy, getting a constant influx of money from large estates along with their notable inheritance, while a member of the lower nobility has to actually struggle more to keep afloat. It simply made it easier to deal with his clients when they had economic interests of their own. The idea of giving additional feats is really the most notable difference in your house-rules. I actually don't think that it would be game-breaking in any way, and the way feats are constructed in 3E I actually think it would be a benefit. There's simply too many feats that are considered "must have", leaving little space for specialization. Any melee character "must have" weapon focus, specialization, improved critical, power attack and cleave. Any caster character "must have" spell focus in his more commonly used schools, as well as a minimum of meta-magic and magic item creation feats. So the extra feats actually gives good options.</blockquote>

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