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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9569226" data-attributes="member: 7006">That's all true.  Don't disagree.  But at the same time on the opposite side of the coin one could say that it weakens the thematic power of the dragonmarks when a character with a specific class can be better and more magically inclined to the theming of the mark.  A Mark of Making might give you certain abilities, but they would pale in comparison to a mere regular Artificer.  Or a Siberys greater-marked Sentinel still pales in comparison to your run-of-the-mill Fighter with their standard Fighter abilities.But  that's something I think was always true and will always be true when having to align the narrative idea of dragonmarks to the actual game mechanics of D&D-- Classes get so many features and mechanics that they will always thematically overpower anything you might get through a dragonmark.  So Keith's comment in his book was trying to split the difference.  Since a high-leveled Class will always overpower a Greater Dragonmark feat in terms of giving abilities that thematically apply to the House they belong to... aligning the Class to the Mark to be the "most powerful" Dragonmarked member of a House is probably narratively the best way to do it.  A true Jorasco healer doesn't have just the selected healing spells that the feats might provide... they also have all the additional healing and resurrection functions that you can get from the Cleric class (and you can just refluff the Cleric class as needed if you don't want the religiosity as a part of being your ultimate Jorasco healer.)Perfect system?  Not at all.  But it's always going to be an issue between the narrative of the setting and trying to create them game mechanically.</blockquote>

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