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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8210738" data-attributes="member: 177">Have you played many classless systems?&nbsp; Because, usually you still wind up with restrictions and tradeoffs, because in most such systems, there are still limits on what you can take, and their costs.&nbsp; In general, they are designed with the concept that you cannot be good at everything, so you have to make choices, and those will generally restrict viable choices for you going forward.&nbsp; If you want to be good at fighting, you have to put your build points into the appropriate stats or skills, and that means you probably won't also be good at slinging spells, or whatever.Many classless systems still have elements that you have to buy into at the character generation step, and there is no way within the rules to change that choice once play begins.&nbsp; I classic Deadlands, for example, if you don't buy into being able to use magic at character generation, you cannot pick up use of magic later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8210738, member: 177"] Have you played many classless systems? Because, usually you still wind up with restrictions and tradeoffs, because in most such systems, there are still [I]limits[/I] on what you can take, and their costs. In general, they are designed with the concept that you cannot be good at everything, so you have to make choices, and those will generally restrict viable choices for you going forward. If you want to be good at fighting, you have to put your build points into the appropriate stats or skills, and that means you probably won't also be good at slinging spells, or whatever. Many classless systems still have elements that you have to buy into at the character generation step, and there is no way within the rules to change that choice once play begins. I classic Deadlands, for example, if you don't buy into being able to use magic at character generation, you [I]cannot[/I] pick up use of magic later. [/QUOTE]

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