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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3647203" data-attributes="member: 14041">Does social standing have a place in your game?Sometimes. When we played Eberron the fact that one of the PCs was a Cannith Artificer was important. In another game the ties that the PCs had to various minor aristocratic houses became very important. When you make up a background for your character how much depth do you put into it?Alot.  My group likes character driven play and we all like to make up intricate characters. Sometimes its just hooks, others its full short stories about important events in the PCs life. Do you have rules set in place for backgrounds?Not currently.  However if such were going to be an important part of the game we would develop some or adapt from GoO's Game of Thrones. Does your DM give you bonus skill points of feats to help flesh out a background?Generally not, but at times we have used what were basically the Fantasy equivalent of d20Ms occupations.  Adamant has just come out with a line of them. Will your DM allow you to play a prince?In a way I currently am, even if he is not and has never wielded that power due to his mother's self chosen exile and later rejection of her offspring as "unworthy".  A portion of the campaign we are in now is dealing with his relatives and how he plans on adressing it.  In the long run it may end up with him in a position of power.For those of you that allow a social standing, does it give you an edge at character creation in your games you play or DM?Again, not neccessarilly, although it may allow roleplaying opportunties that could be of benifit to the group, such as highly placed contacts and resources they might not otherwise be able to access early on. Would it if there where rules for such a thing?There are various rules and the inclusion of them in one of our games is more dependent on the kind of campaign we want to run than it is a particular ruleset. On the other end, if you started in the lower class, what if you started with the Blooded feat for free?Off the top of my head I am not sure what that feat is, but I would definetly say that a PC that was at some social disadvantage should have some mechanical compensation for it, unless the player just wanted to RP the handicap.</blockquote>

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