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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonei" data-source="post: 5153346" data-attributes="member: 88176">I'm concerned with this too.  I think a possible balance could be to have 'packages' or 'kits' with each one showing quite a number of different examples of what they could become. For example, let's say it's a package that gives a starting character healing and a decent attack ability.  It might be- A character that grew up fighting on the rough streets that somehow has an innate sense for healing. A farm boy (or girl) whose background is hunting animals and wrestling steers that has skills of healing (and knowledge of herbs) from patching up farm animals. A devout holy person that has trained to become a warrior to defend their faith. A medic/healer for an army that learned how to fight in their training, just in case. And so forth.  Those are just what I could throw out in a few seconds...  they could definitely use a bit more flavor.  Then in the back of the book/pdf would be guidelines, how each package was built, and the point values for each ability, so that the DM or the player could easily adjust/adapt the packages to suit their concepts.</blockquote>