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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babinro" data-source="post: 5088463" data-attributes="member: 67482">In my case, Role play comes from the character I'm building...rather than building a character around a role play concept.I typically build characters by choosing class, then paragon path, then class features, then race, then feats, then skill points to best suit my desired feat progression.  Finally powers.Example: I've wanted to play a Fighter.  I figure I'd end up going STR and CON since that seems to be the most predominant type.  However, after review or paragon paths I caught sight of Pit Fighter.  The Pit Fighter add Wisdom to its attack rolls.  Upon review of feats, it started to make sense that this should be a shield bearer.  As such, I focused my race on STR/WIS/dex.  I ended up going Half-Orc Flail wielder which supports my primary and tertiary stats.  I could have gone with a Shifter to optimize primary and secondary roles, but the half-orc race seemed to better suit what I was building for a sense of RP based on prior decisions made. Wizards definitely designed the races to focus on certain classes.  I consider it a design flaw of sorts.  The positive being that this sort of design ensures a large variety in races being played in 4E as a whole.  The negative being that I could never see myself taking Gnome, or Eladrin, Half-elf, Halfling etc for the above fighter build due to the current design.Though I've never implemented it, I like the house rule of using one of the two Ability boost options per race as a mandatory, and allowing anything else as its secondary.  Thus opening up a lot more options to the players to choose from without sacrificing their vision of 'optimization'.</blockquote>

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