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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5099754" data-attributes="member: 7006">As Mustrum says... you can allow the &quot;breaking&quot; of the rules for your player at the beginning, with the understanding that you have the power to change your mind later on if things go spiraling out of control.Of course... as DM you can greatly control whether or not things go spiraling, so it's not something I think you should be overly concerned about.&nbsp; My own method if I was DMing this would be to let the player have some of the Avenger class traits to start with (since that was his original class prior to hybridization), then slowly allow the player to purchase some of the warlock ones over time via feats as the character becomes more adapted to dealing with the voices from Xoriat.For my money... the slight change in power (either more or less) that came from the change of pure Avenger to Avenger/Warlock hybrid... is more than made up for the awesome characterization of the deva becoming a conduit to Xoriat.&nbsp; I am always in favor of granting slight character awards due to fantastic roleplaying choices, because more often than not, those roleplaying choices aren't optimal selections and the player deliberately gimps his character because a particular selection makes more sense.&nbsp; So &quot;breaking the rules&quot; for them by giving other slight awards is the least I can do (since I have faith in my DM skills to keep any changes from spiraling out of control).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5099754, member: 7006"] As Mustrum says... you can allow the "breaking" of the rules for your player at the beginning, with the understanding that you have the power to change your mind later on if things go spiraling out of control. Of course... as DM you can greatly control whether or not things go spiraling, so it's not something I think you should be overly concerned about. My own method if I was DMing this would be to let the player have some of the Avenger class traits to start with (since that was his original class prior to hybridization), then slowly allow the player to purchase some of the warlock ones over time via feats as the character becomes more adapted to dealing with the voices from Xoriat. For my money... the slight change in power (either more or less) that came from the change of pure Avenger to Avenger/Warlock hybrid... is more than made up for the awesome characterization of the deva becoming a conduit to Xoriat. I am always in favor of granting slight character awards due to fantastic roleplaying choices, because more often than not, those roleplaying choices aren't optimal selections and the player deliberately gimps his character because a particular selection makes more sense. So "breaking the rules" for them by giving other slight awards is the least I can do (since I have faith in my DM skills to keep any changes from spiraling out of control). [/QUOTE]

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