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<blockquote data-quote="Edwidget" data-source="post: 8587616" data-attributes="member: 6795996">That's more of a &quot;buy-in&quot; problem than a system problem. GURPS is a toolset. It may not force your hand, but it expects you buy into the fantasy. Or not, it leaves it up to the players. One player in particular is expected to curate the experience: the GM. GURPS just puts more responsibility on the GM to herd his cats. It definitely favors more experienced players.To answer the OP, D&amp;D tries to marry the fluff and crunch. It does so in a way that promotes popular archetypes. You are effectively punished for playing, say, a dwarven wizard. You will be behind in the primary stat/asi department. You're taking a -5% hit to the effectiveness of your primary class identity just because you want to play something a little different. Whether and how that matters depends wholly on your group, but it's not nothing. That approach can feel restrictive, especially for people who have been playing since 1992, or people who have experienced other systems like HERO or GURPS. If you can in good faith refluff a class such that your fluff matches the mechanics of a particular class, and it doesn't violate the setting, I see no reason to disallow it. It's kind of the idea behind changing &quot;thief&quot; to &quot;rogue&quot;- it reduces the feeling of being pigeonholed.I'm inclined to allow players to move their +1 to a different stat in a lot of cases. In most cases it doesn't break anything and it lets people feel like their character is unique or new in some way. Simple things can go a long way; humans have judgement- use it.I'm not saying it should be a free for all. That mentality is what causes many people's issue with GURPS. I'm saying a little freedom, used responsibly, is fine. Some players can handle it, while others will take a mile if given an inch.The beauty of these games is that everything is okay, subject to the approval of your table, with the GM acting as the referee.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Edwidget, post: 8587616, member: 6795996"] That's more of a "buy-in" problem than a system problem. GURPS is a toolset. It may not force your hand, but it expects you buy into the fantasy. Or not, it leaves it up to the players. One player in particular is expected to curate the experience: the GM. GURPS just puts more responsibility on the GM to herd his cats. It definitely favors more experienced players. To answer the OP, D&D tries to marry the fluff and crunch. It does so in a way that promotes popular archetypes. You are effectively punished for playing, say, a dwarven wizard. You will be behind in the primary stat/asi department. You're taking a -5% hit to the effectiveness of your primary class identity just because you want to play something a little different. Whether and how that matters depends wholly on your group, but it's not nothing. That approach can feel restrictive, especially for people who have been playing since 1992, or people who have experienced other systems like HERO or GURPS. If you can [I]in good faith[/I] refluff a class such that your fluff matches the mechanics of a particular class, and it doesn't violate the setting, I see no reason to disallow it. It's kind of the idea behind changing "thief" to "rogue"- it reduces the feeling of being pigeonholed. I'm inclined to allow players to move their +1 to a different stat in a lot of cases. In most cases it doesn't break anything and it lets people feel like their character is unique or new in some way. Simple things can go a long way; humans have judgement- use it. I'm not saying it should be a free for all. That mentality is what causes many people's issue with GURPS. I'm saying a little freedom, used responsibly, is fine. Some players can handle it, while others will take a mile if given an inch. The beauty of these games is that everything is okay, subject to the approval of your table, with the GM acting as the referee. [/QUOTE]

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