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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6210615" data-attributes="member: 6678119">Coming from exclusively 3e stuff, I would agree with this, although I can imagine that 4e could integrate such things more closely with the game than 3e might.  3e can be loose in those regards and even clerics don't necessarily need to even worship a deity to actually be a cleric (except in some settings like Eberron I believe).The degree has been different over the editions though.  One of the things I'm thankful for that 3e did (maybe something in 2e, but I haven't looked at that in depth) was separate one's race from class, although still offer a nod to the race's preferences in the form of favored classes (which can be done better in 3e because multiclass XP penalties are stupid, but PF's way of doing it isn't balanced and suffers from power creep).  Heck, there's direct support for dwarf sorcerers via racial substitution levels, which would definitely be out of place with earlier editions where dwarfs couldn't even use magic they were so resistance to it.</blockquote>