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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9438065" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Sure.  Take Dara, the Damphir Monk I linked above.  At games end she was a Long Death Monk 18/Death Cleric 1/Shadow Sorcerer 1An abreviation of her backstory is her spaceship was taken by Vampirates.  She was bitten and cast overboard to drift in the Astral sea and presumably die.  But she did not die, she washed up on a peice of a dead god who happened to be the God of Death.  She became a cleric devoted to him (even though he was dead) and survived in a semi undead form.Her connection to shadow sorcery is based on being bitten by a Vampire and being turned into a creature of Shadow.  Her Cleric level is reflective of her strugle to survive before she found out her diety did not actually exist.  She spent her career as a Monk studying the effects of death.The abilities she got with that are all very thematic.Another example is Janthistlauria (Janet).  She is a servant of the Queen of Air And Darkness in the Unseelie court. She came to the prime as a Fey Warlock 1.  Long story short - she is on Holiday after brokering a deal for the queen.  It is a 2-week vacation .... but on the prime material that is around 137 years.  She started vacation as a 1st level Fey Warlock representing her devotion to the qad.  She picked up a second level in Warlock and then went as a Glamour Bard going forward (again Feywild connection) leveraging her Fey Charms while she is adventuring.  Her Bard class really represents her "vacation" class while she is on holiday, even though it is 14 of 17 levels.  While adventuring in the 9 hells she picked up her order cleric level based on some negotiations and legal proceedings she did with a Fey that was in Avernus and the devils.Those are two examples tying backstory to class choices, but there are also mechanical elements.  Particularly when playing non-casters, picking up a caster level brings spells and the flavor that comes with those spells.  One PC I played Tazzi was a Rogue.  But she picked up a Fey Lock level and the Hex spell.  This was a major theme to her character - her calling down a curse form her patron onto on an enemy she was about to attack .... as well as being able to use Hex and Fey Presence to talk her way in or out of almost any situation. Really Hex was her signature move, her eyes turned jet black when she cast it and both the DM and other players got into this because it happened so often on a PC that was otherwise a Rogue.   Could she have done it as a Rogue with other abilities?  Sure but it would not have been as flavorful.</blockquote>

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