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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7361193" data-attributes="member: 7006">So we are agreed.&nbsp; Game mechanics DO NO denote character concept.&nbsp; As you state in your first sentence I've quoted... the reason why your character is tough is because the feat says so.&nbsp; It has nothing to do with the actual math... it has nothing to do with any hit points you may or may not have... so long as there's a thing of some sort in the game that gives you the description of being &quot;tough&quot;... then your character is tough.So let me put this out there... you have a Personality Trait that says &quot;I'm the toughest SOB there is.&quot;There you go.&nbsp; You now have another actual feature in the game that has narratively given you the right to claim in-story that you are the toughest guy around.&nbsp; And you didn't need to use any game mechanics for it.&nbsp; You didn't need to have &quot;more hit points&quot; than another player's character.&nbsp; A feat wasn't necessary to give you in-story recognition of who you are.&nbsp; You chose to narratively claim to have the toughest character there is.Wouldn't that be good enough?&nbsp; Seems to me it should be.&nbsp; If a feat's name can allow you to claim to be tough, couldn't a Trait, Bond, or Ideal do the same?&nbsp; They are all just game features after all.&nbsp; And that's really my point... the name on a feat is no better than the phrase on a BIFT.&nbsp; They're both merely descriptions.&nbsp; So it seems to me... you can make any descriptions you want about your character and if you play the descriptions that way, it isn't required that the game mechanics math follow suit.&nbsp; Because more often than not, they aren't going to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7361193, member: 7006"] So we are agreed. Game mechanics DO NO denote character concept. As you state in your first sentence I've quoted... the reason why your character is tough is because the feat [I]says so[/I]. It has nothing to do with the actual math... it has nothing to do with any hit points you may or may not have... so long as there's a [B]thing[/B] of some sort in the game that gives you the description of being "tough"... then your character is tough. So let me put this out there... you have a Personality Trait that says "I'm the toughest SOB there is." There you go. You now have another actual feature in the game that has narratively given you the right to claim in-story that you are the toughest guy around. And you didn't need to use any game mechanics for it. You didn't need to have "more hit points" than another player's character. A feat [I]wasn't necessary[/I] to give you in-story recognition of who you are. You chose to narratively claim to have the toughest character there is. Wouldn't that be good enough? Seems to me it should be. If a feat's name can allow you to claim to be tough, couldn't a Trait, Bond, or Ideal do the same? They are all just game features after all. And that's really my point... the name on a feat is no better than the phrase on a BIFT. They're both merely descriptions. So it seems to me... you can make any descriptions you want about your character and if you play the descriptions that way, it isn't required that the game mechanics math follow suit. Because more often than not, they aren't going to. [/QUOTE]

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