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<blockquote data-quote="BobTheNob" data-source="post: 5897701" data-attributes="member: 82425">Graciously said.To acknowledge your original point it is essential that every player is able to compose the character according to the image what they want it to be, so indeed the example of Conan being the Barbarian (noble/lurker) is one way of doing it.The thing I want to see is multiple themes (which I think I read they were allowing more at later levels...can anyone confirm) to cover this off. I hold to the concept that with multiple themes the &quot;idea&quot; of the class can be preserved.My alternate preference for the Conan model (trying to encapsulate your perceived thematic model) therefore isClass : Fighter, Background : Barbarian, Themes : Noble, Lurker, BezerkerSo the rage mechanics specific to the Barbarian are moved into Bezerker, with Barbarian being more the cultural and interactive aspects. With Noble and Lurker adding there extra little bit of flavor.One other example I particularly like is to have Paladin as a theme. Is a paladin a fighter or a cleric (that age old debate...)? Well, that ends up coming down to which class it becomes combined with.I do stress this would be my preferred way of handling it. My understanding at this stage is that the &quot;none core&quot; classes (Paladin, Barb, Ranger e.t.c.) are being included, so I am at this stage just blowing steam, but its nice to think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BobTheNob, post: 5897701, member: 82425"] Graciously said. To acknowledge your original point it is essential that every player is able to compose the character according to the image what they want it to be, so indeed the example of Conan being the Barbarian (noble/lurker) is one way of doing it. The thing I want to see is multiple themes (which I think I read they were allowing more at later levels...can anyone confirm) to cover this off. I hold to the concept that with multiple themes the "idea" of the class can be preserved. My alternate preference for the Conan model (trying to encapsulate your perceived thematic model) therefore is Class : Fighter, Background : Barbarian, Themes : Noble, Lurker, Bezerker So the rage mechanics specific to the Barbarian are moved into Bezerker, with Barbarian being more the cultural and interactive aspects. With Noble and Lurker adding there extra little bit of flavor. One other example I particularly like is to have Paladin as a theme. Is a paladin a fighter or a cleric (that age old debate...)? Well, that ends up coming down to which class it becomes combined with. I do stress this would be my preferred way of handling it. My understanding at this stage is that the "none core" classes (Paladin, Barb, Ranger e.t.c.) are being included, so I am at this stage just blowing steam, but its nice to think. [/QUOTE]

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