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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2798545" data-attributes="member: 20805">I think your perception of what a class means to a character differs greatly from mine.Fx, character concept and Growth: Fred of the Red Beard... Fred grew up as an Orphan living in the city of Santuary. He was brought into the fold by the beggers guild but, being a stockliy built lad, was not well suited for the life of beggers and his stubby fingers could never get the hang of filching from passing pockets. He was, however, quite talented at slipping unseen through the darkness, his step as light as a cat but horrendus at keeping his temper. The Guild used him as a strong-arm, working alongside some older knee-cappers in recovering overdue debts. Well it wasn't the best of lives, it was a life. As he got older his partners started teaching him about identifying marks and judging the value of items. He also trained alongside Algernon, learning how to slip in through back windows and avoid the traps some rich merchants invested in... all in his duty of waking the poor merchant up with his signature flair. One autumn a particularly nasty gentlemen completely trounced Fred and his partners with an odd weapon, some kind of double headed axe. Fred was suitably impressed and decided that, after assasinating the Dwarf, he would use this weird axe. It took a couple of years, and he had to pay Mr Barker, the Deneithian Mercenary's master trainer to get it right.  Some years later, Mr Barker caught up to him at the Drunken Turtle, a real dive that place, and offered him a salaried job up north... but cautioned that he would have to learn some new skills as he would be working around nobles.. but his specialization with the double headed Axe would do him well.When he shows up at the city of lights, he is:BrB2, Rogue2, Fighter 4, Centurion (PrC) 1..and finally learns to read <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />After serving a couple years at the city of lights have soured him with its politics and high falutin ways, he heads west, encountering his fathers kin folk and finds religion. He returns to his roots and then chooses to follow a new path, gouging out his eye and becoming one of the Favored of Grummish...BrB3, Rogue2, Fighter 4, Centurion (PrC) 4, FoG (PrC) 1{hmm.. I will have to remember this one.. I kinda like the curmudgen!}Anything wrong with Fred?Besides the fact that I show him as a BrB who has never 'adventured' outside of the city?Not all BrB have to be rustic club weilding, majic hating people living in hide armor... Not all Ftr have to be pure classed.====Once upon a time there was an earlier edition in which fighters all had the 'class' of 'fighter'. This new edition you can have fighters of all different classes.. The mechanics should support the roleplaying, not the other way around.If you want a game were stereotyping by class is the norm, great for you. Diversity is what keeps this world from being boring.If you want to stretch the bounds of a character type.. I will gladly bend, twist, and mutilate the Core classes until they can mechanically resemble your character concept. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> Oh.. I like the idea of spreading the 1st level skill boost out over 3 levels.. but don't think that it affects that much as long as the DM has oversight on the build.. asking questions like 'why aren't you taking any points in Sleight of Hand?, you are playing a Rogue aren't you?' <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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