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<blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3648687" data-attributes="member: 3929">Both in my game and the game I play in it makes a difference. Unless you're an officer in the army, ranking officers won't really listen to you. If you're not an elf, elves won't even consider that you are evolved enough to have an opinion. So both social and racial standing are very much part of the game.I go about 3/4 of the way to a fully developed character as far as background goes. By that I mean I have my place of birth, parents, siblings, adult profession, but I leave the details for me to make up on the spot when it comes time to role-play.No, but a background is encouraged.My DM doesn't. I give out 4 skill points at first level that may only be put towards a Craft or Profession skill.My DM allows PC princes. HOWEVER: playing a prince isn't necessarily recommended. You can order people around, but you have responsibilities commensurate with that power. That, and you are a target not only because you're a PC, but also because you're a prince. So it really opens the door for the DM to be a right bugger about things.I don't allow PC princes on the grounds that I think it would make sense for a prince to have responsibilities and pressures that would get in the way of adventuring unless I (the DM) were to also be a right bugger and make the PC in question a big ol target for bad guys. I am satisfied with the amount of buggery I inflict upon the PCs, so I am leery about heaping more on. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felix, post: 3648687, member: 3929"] Both in my game and the game I play in it makes a difference. Unless you're an officer in the army, ranking officers won't really listen to you. If you're not an elf, elves won't even consider that you are evolved enough to have an opinion. So both social and racial standing are very much part of the game. I go about 3/4 of the way to a fully developed character as far as background goes. By that I mean I have my place of birth, parents, siblings, adult profession, but I leave the details for me to make up on the spot when it comes time to role-play. No, but a background is encouraged. My DM doesn't. I give out 4 skill points at first level that may only be put towards a Craft or Profession skill. My DM allows PC princes. HOWEVER: playing a prince isn't necessarily recommended. You can order people around, but you have responsibilities commensurate with that power. That, and you are a target not only because you're a PC, but also because you're a prince. So it really opens the door for the DM to be a right bugger about things. I don't allow PC princes on the grounds that I think it would make sense for a prince to have responsibilities and pressures that would get in the way of adventuring unless I (the DM) were to also be a right bugger and make the PC in question a big ol target for bad guys. I am satisfied with the amount of buggery I inflict upon the PCs, so I am leery about heaping more on. ;) [/QUOTE]

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