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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7171907" data-attributes="member: 6816692">Yep. It totally depends on the players, the GM and their imagination. I actually loved seeing a well-thought and valorous elven Paladin in one of our 3.5 campaigns. Too many people equate &quot;being able to combine what you want&quot; with &quot;all my PCs will be min/maxed hybrids with no real backstory for the lulz&quot;. Combining stuff sensibly allows for so much of a broader spectrum of playstyles. For example, theme campaigns. Like playing an order of Paladins. Or a dwarven clan. Or stretching your imagination to find a good backstory and personality for your half-orc wizard or elven barbarian or dragonborn hermit.&nbsp; Also, playing mundane is fine. But this doesn't automatically equate to better character roleplay. Just because you were Pip the squire of Sir Covington from Memuria and then became knighted as Sir Piperandus at the age of 21, fell in love with a lady above your station and started adventuring to increase your social standing, this doesn't mean that this story is in any way superior to, say, a dragonborn favored soul who was reincarnated by a messenger of Bahamut because said person failed to protect a holy shrine of the god in his previous life as a human and is now on a quest to help all dragonkind in need.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7171907, member: 6816692"] Yep. It totally depends on the players, the GM and their imagination. I actually loved seeing a well-thought and valorous elven Paladin in one of our 3.5 campaigns. Too many people equate "being able to combine what you want" with "all my PCs will be min/maxed hybrids with no real backstory for the lulz". Combining stuff sensibly allows for so much of a broader spectrum of playstyles. For example, theme campaigns. Like playing an order of Paladins. Or a dwarven clan. Or stretching your imagination to find a good backstory and personality for your half-orc wizard or elven barbarian or dragonborn hermit. Also, playing mundane is fine. But this doesn't automatically equate to better character roleplay. Just because you were Pip the squire of Sir Covington from Memuria and then became knighted as Sir Piperandus at the age of 21, fell in love with a lady above your station and started adventuring to increase your social standing, this doesn't mean that this story is in any way superior to, say, a dragonborn favored soul who was reincarnated by a messenger of Bahamut because said person failed to protect a holy shrine of the god in his previous life as a human and is now on a quest to help all dragonkind in need. [/QUOTE]

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