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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8640565" data-attributes="member: 7006">Me personally, I'm also in the camp that comes up with my character completely separate from any mechanical expression.&nbsp; I usually do not care what the mechanics end up being and could take any number of different classes to express who the character is.&nbsp; And after selecting a class, how the character advances mechanically ends up just following how the character advances in the story.&nbsp; I never really go into any game thinking purely mechanical-- &quot;I really want to make a heavy-weapon using character that can stop monsters from getting around me so that I can protect the squishies behind me&quot;.&nbsp; Instead, it's more something like &quot;The DM has set up this protective organization in the starting town, so I'd like to be a young farmhand from outside the village who shows up on their doorstep to train because his parents have had issues with neighboring creatures coming in and stealing their animals&quot;.&nbsp; And none of that background specifically denotes any necessary class or any &quot;moves&quot; the farmhand can do... so I can pick and choose how it gets &quot;built&quot; later on.&nbsp; Usually after other players have chosen what they want to play and I can fill in a class for what we might want/need.And thus there's no real time where the build &quot;turns on&quot;-- the character is the character from the get-go.&nbsp; And any mechanical bits that show up later are cool and all, but none of them are required or a part of the design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8640565, member: 7006"] Me personally, I'm also in the camp that comes up with my character completely separate from any mechanical expression. I usually do not care what the mechanics end up being and could take any number of different classes to express who the character is. And after selecting a class, how the character advances mechanically ends up just following how the character advances in the story. I never really go into any game thinking purely mechanical-- "I really want to make a heavy-weapon using character that can stop monsters from getting around me so that I can protect the squishies behind me". Instead, it's more something like "The DM has set up this protective organization in the starting town, so I'd like to be a young farmhand from outside the village who shows up on their doorstep to train because his parents have had issues with neighboring creatures coming in and stealing their animals". And none of that background specifically denotes any necessary class or any "moves" the farmhand can do... so I can pick and choose how it gets "built" later on. Usually after other players have chosen what they want to play and I can fill in a class for what we might want/need. And thus there's no real time where the build "turns on"-- the character is the character from the get-go. And any mechanical bits that show up later are cool and all, but none of them are required or a part of the design. [/QUOTE]

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