Anyone tried swapping themes?

[GSHamster]

Just wondering if anyone has tried swapping themes among the pregen characters?

Like taking the Guardian theme from the Cleric of Moradin and giving it to the Fighter. And then giving the Slayer theme to the Rogue, or Cleric. Or doing something silly like giving the Magic-User theme to the Fighter.

It seems like there are almost no numbers associated with Themes, so it should be very easy to do. I wonder how much it can change the way the character plays. Or how two characters with the same theme but different classes compare.

 

[jadrax]

I played about with it a bit when thinking about NPCs/Henchmen.

Swapping Slayer for Guardian on the Fighter is probably the most obvious. Eventually though I just abandoned it in favour of adding Backgrounds or Themes to the Human instead.

 

[jeffh]

I'd allow it if one of the standard five died and someone was looking for a little more choice in creating a replacement PC. Set up the standard ability score array however you like, pick any combination of the four and a half races, four and a half classes, five themes and five backgrounds we've got so far, then further adjust the abilities for class and race. Should work okay until we get something more robust from WotC.