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<blockquote data-quote="brehobit" data-source="post: 3466505" data-attributes="member: 12032">Yeah,Blood lines are cool, but the level balancing trick fails.&nbsp; In all honesty, I think D&amp;D needs a better background option anyways.&nbsp; Lots of games (traveler and Rolemaster come to mind) do a good job with this.I'd say: Drop the feat at first level.&nbsp; Give everyone N points to build a character (using point buy).&nbsp; Let them buy some things (feats, &quot;always class skills&quot;, skill points, bloodlines) with those points in addition to stats.&nbsp; Price the feats by value (so great fort. costs less than power attack) and vary the costs by race.&nbsp; (EWP in a racial weapon costs less here). I've even thought about letting people buy a level AND treating them as 1 level lower for EXP.&nbsp; This could model the &quot;common man&quot; (no great skills) who has a lot of experience coming into the game.&nbsp; I think priced right it would work (stat increases can be balanced by ECL)I've started on a whole bunch of systems for this, but only used it once.&nbsp; Next game....Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brehobit, post: 3466505, member: 12032"] Yeah, Blood lines are cool, but the level balancing trick fails. In all honesty, I think D&D needs a better background option anyways. Lots of games (traveler and Rolemaster come to mind) do a good job with this. I'd say: Drop the feat at first level. Give everyone N points to build a character (using point buy). Let them buy some things (feats, "always class skills", skill points, bloodlines) with those points in addition to stats. Price the feats by value (so great fort. costs less than power attack) and vary the costs by race. (EWP in a racial weapon costs less here). I've even thought about letting people buy a level AND treating them as 1 level lower for EXP. This could model the "common man" (no great skills) who has a lot of experience coming into the game. I think priced right it would work (stat increases can be balanced by ECL) I've started on a whole bunch of systems for this, but only used it once. Next game.... Mark [/QUOTE]

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