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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7588189">Was this a sincere conversation starter, or a plug for some other website?In any event, I hadn't really thought much about where I get my concepts from, but thinking about it now the answer might have to be that I start with sub-classes, and then think of how those abilities might apply to something...a little different.For example, I had a Kensai Monk I really enjoyed who didn't consider himself a monk: he was a swordsman.  He came from a school of sword fighting where you are only allowed to use a wooden sword until you earn the right to use a real sword.  Although it wasn't entirely clear to him how you do that, and he was a long way away from his school.  Which was in ashes, anyway.  (Metagame answer: when you reach 3rd level you get a real sword.  Until then you are forced to use a sword-shaped quarterstaff.  Derp.)I'm waiting for a chance to play my half-orc Cavalier.  He wants nothing more than to be a valiant knight, rescuing damsels, but he's bitter (and very vocal) about the discrimination he's suffered "from them purdy boys" among the ranks of knights and paladins. So he'll go his own way, throwing himself in the path of danger to prove that he's as knightly as any of 'em.</blockquote>