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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3290385" data-attributes="member: 36597">I've got something that "cleaves" this issue down the middle:True20.In it's rules it recognizes three classes - Adept (magic), Expert (skills) and Warrior (combat).  Each one of these has a special ability tied to its class as well as a small group of feats that it, and it alone, can take.  There's a big pool of general feats, such as Armor Training, Connected, Improved Initiative, which any one can choose from.  Specialized lists for each class consist of: Adept has powers (i.e. spells) and meta-magic feats; Expert has rogue-like feats like sneak attack, hide in plain sight, or skill-focused feats like Inspire or Jack-of-All-Trade; Warrior's exclusive feats emphazise combat (cleave) and physical toughness (diehard).  You also get one feat at every new level!When I first tried True20 on my players they were hesitant because they thought they were giving up all those fun classes and PrCs in the 3.5 books.  I told them it's just the opposite - a 3.5 class restricts you to a pre-defined class feat tree.  With True20, you can pick the feat that best suits your character.  Using the three base classes and various "Complete" books I was able to spec out general "class trees" for my Oriental Adventure campaign.  My players could chose to follow the tree, or build their own.  It solved the problem of what kind of ninja to play (master of disguise, assassin, shadow sneak, Naruto, etc.) because the player could build a "ninja" the way they wanted to play it.  So the bonus for True20 is the ability of players to build their character the way they want to while keeping many of the D20 rules.  The bonus for the DM is a streamlined set of rules which emphasize story-driven playing.</blockquote>

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