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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5341448" data-attributes="member: 82106">This is my issue with it. Why do the players have to pick a Theme right off? It MIGHT be appropriate to do that, and it very well might not be. I'd really love it if you weren't required to make this choice at level 1. Race/class/background is usually enough to define your neophyte adventurer. Let them become Pirates or Adepts by going out and doing it. What bites is they dropped in a freebie. Without that most players would probably not feel terribly compelled to take a Theme. Even if the increment of 'power creep' is ZERO players will STILL want that freebie and feel like they're missing something if they don't create a Pirate etc. for a character. It also opens up the almost inevitable situation where one or two Themes are measurably better than the others and you have an endless parade of Gladiators. Yes, yes, we can just BAN Themes, we know that already, spare us. I don't WANT to ban Themes, I want ones that give starting PCs more flexibility instead of LESS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5341448, member: 82106"] This is my issue with it. Why do the players have to pick a Theme right off? It MIGHT be appropriate to do that, and it very well might not be. I'd really love it if you weren't required to make this choice at level 1. Race/class/background is usually enough to define your neophyte adventurer. Let them become Pirates or Adepts by going out and doing it. What bites is they dropped in a freebie. Without that most players would probably not feel terribly compelled to take a Theme. Even if the increment of 'power creep' is ZERO players will STILL want that freebie and feel like they're missing something if they don't create a Pirate etc. for a character. It also opens up the almost inevitable situation where one or two Themes are measurably better than the others and you have an endless parade of Gladiators. Yes, yes, we can just BAN Themes, we know that already, spare us. I don't WANT to ban Themes, I want ones that give starting PCs more flexibility instead of LESS. [/QUOTE]

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