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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6435459" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'll look again, but there's really a lot of calculating going on with his system - that said, I'm not sure how your character can end up with exactly that many points used, when the other classes it's based on use almost exactly the same amount while still having far less. The bard, for example, uses 214 points...but it's only advantages are a few bardic music abilities, and 6 skill points per level. Are those - and that remaining 1 point - really worth a huge bump in Hit Dice, a third full-progression save, full BAB, fast movement, and quite a bit more?In other words, can you walk me through the numbers?Well, the &quot;intention&quot; of a class-based system is to constrain the available choices into class-based packages, so as to keep characters in various niches and, ostensibly, to preserve &quot;balance&quot; between them. The whole point of using a point-buy system is that it's more open than that. If you were worried about what the d20 System in general (or Pathfinder in particular) intended for you to do, why are you using a point-buy system to make a character more powerful than what the standard classes offer, after all?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 6435459, member: 8461"] I'll look again, but there's really a lot of calculating going on with his system - that said, I'm not sure how your character can end up with exactly that many points used, when the other classes it's based on use almost exactly the same amount while still having far less. The bard, for example, uses 214 points...but it's only advantages are a few bardic music abilities, and 6 skill points per level. Are those - and that remaining 1 point - really worth a huge bump in Hit Dice, a third full-progression save, full BAB, fast movement, and quite a bit more? In other words, can you walk me through the numbers? Well, the "intention" of a class-based system is to constrain the available choices into class-based packages, so as to keep characters in various niches and, ostensibly, to preserve "balance" between them. The whole point of using a point-buy system is that it's more open than that. If you were worried about what the d20 System in general (or Pathfinder in particular) intended for you to do, why are you using a point-buy system to make a character more powerful than what the standard classes offer, after all? [/QUOTE]

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