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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6031491" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>They've already gone on record as saying that, outside of the Core 4, the other classes can be more specific and narrow. They've talked about Rangers being a particular organization, forex. </p><p></p><p>It's a pretty solid idea to me, since class is archetype, not just ability set. </p><p></p><p>Also, none of this invalidates backgrounds that go against the grain. You want to be a Thief who is also a Monk? Or a Noble who is also a Barbarian? Sounds like an interesting story. Did your monk get kicked out of the monastery for stealing a holy relic? Did your noble's family get decimated by barbarian hoards, leaving you to be married off to one of them as a way to preserve a tenuous alliance? Or maybe your Thief discovered religion, or your Noble is a barbarian-king who learned the ways of the court to rule the kingdom from the inside? </p><p></p><p>Nothing in either of those dictates that you necessarily have a particular background -- just that whatever else happened, so did this. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sez who? Perhaps there's a clan of dwarven barbarians as well. Or maybe "dwarven battleragers" (whatever they look like in NEXT) aren't actually of the Barbarian class, though they have similar abilities. </p><p></p><p>There's nothing here that mandates anything that restrictive. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just because you also trained as a monk doesn't mean you also aren't a guttersnipe or a commoner or a noble or a thief or whatever. Folks have all sorts of lifestyles before they join a monastery.</p><p></p><p>Just because you also trained with the barbarians doesn't mean you also aren't a socialite or an entertainer or an engineer or whatever. Folks have all sorts of lifestyles before they're forged in the wilderness with the brutes. </p><p></p><p>Those counter-intuitive backgrounds make for interesting stories, and there's nothing that would forbid them in the more-specific fluff of a given class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6031491, member: 2067"] They've already gone on record as saying that, outside of the Core 4, the other classes can be more specific and narrow. They've talked about Rangers being a particular organization, forex. It's a pretty solid idea to me, since class is archetype, not just ability set. Also, none of this invalidates backgrounds that go against the grain. You want to be a Thief who is also a Monk? Or a Noble who is also a Barbarian? Sounds like an interesting story. Did your monk get kicked out of the monastery for stealing a holy relic? Did your noble's family get decimated by barbarian hoards, leaving you to be married off to one of them as a way to preserve a tenuous alliance? Or maybe your Thief discovered religion, or your Noble is a barbarian-king who learned the ways of the court to rule the kingdom from the inside? Nothing in either of those dictates that you necessarily have a particular background -- just that whatever else happened, so did this. Sez who? Perhaps there's a clan of dwarven barbarians as well. Or maybe "dwarven battleragers" (whatever they look like in NEXT) aren't actually of the Barbarian class, though they have similar abilities. There's nothing here that mandates anything that restrictive. Just because you also trained as a monk doesn't mean you also aren't a guttersnipe or a commoner or a noble or a thief or whatever. Folks have all sorts of lifestyles before they join a monastery. Just because you also trained with the barbarians doesn't mean you also aren't a socialite or an entertainer or an engineer or whatever. Folks have all sorts of lifestyles before they're forged in the wilderness with the brutes. Those counter-intuitive backgrounds make for interesting stories, and there's nothing that would forbid them in the more-specific fluff of a given class. [/QUOTE]
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