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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6982538" data-attributes="member: 6787650">There's no reason the system couldn't come out and say that. GURPS: Dungeon Fantasy publishes a bunch of templates under names like the Viking and Chaos Warrior and Legendary Archer. WotC could do the same if they wanted. In fact, that's basically what the so-called &quot;optimization guides&quot; do informally: provide a template and sometimes a name for how to make your character so it will behave the way you imagine in your head even if you're not very good at system analysis yourself. (Which incidentally could be one reason why &quot;optimization guides&quot; are held in such low esteem by some people with high degrees of ability at system analysis--they underestimate the degree to which casual players need such documents. For certain values of &quot;need&quot; anyway.)All that WotC would need to do would be to publish some templates itself. It's sort of a halfway step between pregenerated characters and PHB rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6982538, member: 6787650"] There's no reason the system couldn't come out and say that. GURPS: Dungeon Fantasy publishes a bunch of templates under names like the Viking and Chaos Warrior and Legendary Archer. WotC could do the same if they wanted. In fact, that's basically what the so-called "optimization guides" do informally: provide a template and sometimes a name for how to make your character so it will behave the way you imagine in your head even if you're not very good at system analysis yourself. (Which incidentally could be one reason why "optimization guides" are held in such low esteem by some people with high degrees of ability at system analysis--they underestimate the degree to which casual players need such documents. For certain values of "need" anyway.) All that WotC would need to do would be to publish some templates itself. It's sort of a halfway step between pregenerated characters and PHB rules. [/QUOTE]

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