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<blockquote data-quote="Anguish" data-source="post: 5097127" data-attributes="member: 27032">In principle there's nothing wrong with this, and plenty good.&nbsp; In practice, the reason why traits and feats keep expanding in scope is because they're flavoured to be topical.&nbsp; Paizo makes a trait for dwarves to gain a bonus to stone/tunneling actions and publishes it in a dwarf sourcebook.&nbsp; Then they make a woodsy trait and stick it in an elf sourcebook.&nbsp; Next, a trait that helps against illusions and sticks it in a sourcebook for clerics of some deity that abhors illusions.&nbsp; And so on.The only down-side to what you suggest is that it dilutes flavour.&nbsp; There'd be no artificial difference between a dwarf, an elf, or a cleric of See-what's-really-there-ia.On the other hand, the simple fix is to say that the DM has final say on all traits and can reserve certain things as flavor-inappropriate.&nbsp; If someone creates a tunnel-bred miner's son of a dwarf and writes backstory that the dwarf just yesterday came to the surface, a trait giving woodlands bonuses should be denied.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anguish, post: 5097127, member: 27032"] In principle there's nothing wrong with this, and plenty good. In practice, the reason why traits and feats keep expanding in scope is because they're flavoured to be topical. Paizo makes a trait for dwarves to gain a bonus to stone/tunneling actions and publishes it in a dwarf sourcebook. Then they make a woodsy trait and stick it in an elf sourcebook. Next, a trait that helps against illusions and sticks it in a sourcebook for clerics of some deity that abhors illusions. And so on. The [I]only[/I] down-side to what you suggest is that it dilutes flavour. There'd be no [I]artificial[/I] difference between a dwarf, an elf, or a cleric of See-what's-really-there-ia. On the other hand, the simple fix is to say that the DM has final say on all traits and can reserve certain things as flavor-inappropriate. If someone creates a tunnel-bred miner's son of a dwarf and writes backstory that the dwarf just yesterday came to the surface, a trait giving woodlands bonuses should be denied. [/QUOTE]

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