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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BVB" data-source="post: 1039254" data-attributes="member: 12155">Good feedback so far. Thanks.The original examples I posted here actually were taken from Dragon magazine articles. Remember a year or so back when they ran sort of a series focusing on the races? I tore out the gnome pages and kept them in a personal notebook. (Can't remember which issue it was.) I really liked the idea of a gnome whose magical abilities developed slightly askew of his cultural heritage, and the magazine article suggested some sort of magically adept feat that would allow him to pick three different cantrips instead of the standard three available to all gnomes. Seemed sort of fair, I supposed -- none of the other gnome PCs would be allowed that sort of flexibility, so it made sense that I would have to pay for it with a feat choice.On the other hand... Well, what difference did it *really* make? I could probably cite other examples over the months, but let's just skip ahead and look at the latest Dragon's approach to non-Lawful-Good paladin variant core classes and specialist fighters. Same sort of decisions being made there -- swap X for Y, as long as X and Y abilities are fairly equal and are applied at the same level as the original so the system doesn't lose its balance.I have to wonder why the corporate game designers and editors at WotC don't pick one character design policy or the other and stick with it.</blockquote>