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<blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8375353" data-attributes="member: 58416">I think that's something which an individual table can do.Even in D&amp;D that's possible. Though, typically, different options tend to be different lists to give a reason for the different categories to exist and be distinct.That's not always true though. In Edge of the Empire (the Star Wars rpg,) you can pick options from outside of your normal list but they cost more. So, the Medic could hypothetically choose options from the Bounty Hunter list but doing so is more expensive.I think, in regards to what you're saying for D&amp;D, I'm okay with the overall idea, but I'd like it more if 5th Edition had more opportunities to choose feats OR if the new racial/cultural/whatever options were picked from a list of things that came from a different list. Maybe there could be &quot;feats&quot; for the class, combat, and etc choices.Then there would also be racial &quot;knacks&quot; for the other stuff. I bring up the idea of two different resources because I remember 3rd Edition getting put of hand with trying to balance all of the feats against each other. A lot of flavorful and cool choices were never picked because they had to compete with mechanically better combat-related things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Argyle King, post: 8375353, member: 58416"] I think that's something which an individual table can do. Even in D&D that's possible. Though, typically, different options tend to be different lists to give a reason for the different categories to exist and be distinct. That's not always true though. In Edge of the Empire (the Star Wars rpg,) you can pick options from outside of your normal list but they cost more. So, the Medic could hypothetically choose options from the Bounty Hunter list but doing so is more expensive. I think, in regards to what you're saying for D&D, I'm okay with the overall idea, but I'd like it more if 5th Edition had more opportunities to choose feats OR if the new racial/cultural/whatever options were picked from a list of things that came from a different list. Maybe there could be "feats" for the class, combat, and etc choices. Then there would also be racial "knacks" for the other stuff. I bring up the idea of two different resources because I remember 3rd Edition getting put of hand with trying to balance all of the feats against each other. A lot of flavorful and cool choices were never picked because they had to compete with mechanically better combat-related things. [/QUOTE]

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