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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 955899" data-attributes="member: 177">I betcha the player's answer basically boils down to &quot;it should be interesting&quot;.&nbsp; And they'd probably be right. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One might also say, &quot;Hm, I've got a pretty bad Con here.&nbsp; Perhaps I ought to try to maximize my hit points by taking a big first die.&nbsp; If I take fighter, and then go on to focus on another class, I'm not gonna shoot myself in the foot, XP wise.Now, if what you're looking for is a background justification of the character...Well, being a fighter isn't necessarily about being good at fighting.&nbsp; It's about learning how to fight.&nbsp; The Dwarf favored class is fighter.&nbsp; Not so odd to think then that many dwarves, even ones not physically in the tops of their class, might get the basic learning down.&nbsp; I can see a character who has taken a bit of the training so that they understand tactics.That depends on what I want to do from that point on.&nbsp; Put the 17 in Dexterity, you get a passable rogue.&nbsp; Put it in Charisma, you get a passable sorcerer.&nbsp; Put it in Intelligence, you get a passible Wizard, and so on.&nbsp; Based solely upon a min/max approach, I'd probably not go with Wisdom aiming to be a cleric or druid.&nbsp; The 8-sided hit die is good enough that you're not winning much by taking the 1st level as fighter rather than cleric.&nbsp; IMHO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 955899, member: 177"] I betcha the player's answer basically boils down to "it should be interesting". And they'd probably be right. :) One might also say, "Hm, I've got a pretty bad Con here. Perhaps I ought to try to maximize my hit points by taking a big first die. If I take fighter, and then go on to focus on another class, I'm not gonna shoot myself in the foot, XP wise. Now, if what you're looking for is a background justification of the character... Well, being a fighter isn't necessarily about being good at fighting. It's about learning how to fight. The Dwarf favored class is fighter. Not so odd to think then that many dwarves, even ones not physically in the tops of their class, might get the basic learning down. I can see a character who has taken a bit of the training so that they understand [i]tactics[/i]. That depends on what I want to do from that point on. Put the 17 in Dexterity, you get a passable rogue. Put it in Charisma, you get a passable sorcerer. Put it in Intelligence, you get a passible Wizard, and so on. Based solely upon a min/max approach, I'd probably not go with Wisdom aiming to be a cleric or druid. The 8-sided hit die is good enough that you're not winning much by taking the 1st level as fighter rather than cleric. IMHO. [/QUOTE]

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