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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8743855" data-attributes="member: 4937">A bigger problem with this is that you would have to enforce that martial characters all had special origin but that spellcasters didn't (otherwise what's to prevent Sorcerer Kings, Godblood Clerics, and Super Serum Wizards), and then on top of that you would have to insist that martial characters with the special origin didn't multiclass into spellcasting classes or if they did that somehow their origin would get balanced despite being Ftr1/Wiz19's.&nbsp; And really though, does everyone want to play a martial that has special background all the time?&nbsp; Doesn't someone want to play a background no bigger than, &quot;Miller's second son out to seek his fortune?&quot;&nbsp; And then you get into problems that those things you list aren't really class based.&nbsp; They are more like 1e AD&amp;D psionics where you get them frontloaded because you are special but they don't overall improve by leveling up.&nbsp; Aragon has his full &quot;King Powers&quot; as The Rightful King at first level.&nbsp; Cap's Super Serum turns him from 1st level to 10th level all in one go.&nbsp; Perseus never has to level up, he's just born that way.&nbsp; None of that fits with the &quot;Zero to Hero&quot; format of D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8743855, member: 4937"] A bigger problem with this is that you would have to enforce that martial characters all had special origin but that spellcasters didn't (otherwise what's to prevent Sorcerer Kings, Godblood Clerics, and Super Serum Wizards), and then on top of that you would have to insist that martial characters with the special origin didn't multiclass into spellcasting classes or if they did that somehow their origin would get balanced despite being Ftr1/Wiz19's. And really though, does everyone want to play a martial that has special background all the time? Doesn't someone want to play a background no bigger than, "Miller's second son out to seek his fortune?" And then you get into problems that those things you list aren't really class based. They are more like 1e AD&D psionics where you get them frontloaded because you are special but they don't overall improve by leveling up. Aragon has his full "King Powers" as The Rightful King at first level. Cap's Super Serum turns him from 1st level to 10th level all in one go. Perseus never has to level up, he's just born that way. None of that fits with the "Zero to Hero" format of D&D. [/QUOTE]

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