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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 2303685" data-attributes="member: 1003">Yeah, in the sense that there hardly is any.  As you said, the AU classes pretty much define how any setting with them worked - especially the more flavorful ones, like Akashic, Witch, Runethane, Ritual Warrior and Runechild.  IH is going to be much more "real world" with fantasy flavor, rather than wholly fantasy.  You're right about most societies needing a good mix (of several at least, though not all).  This doesn't make it harder though, just more open-ended.  You can model pretty much any society from the real world, ancient legends, or pre-Terry Brooks fantasy and then add the Arcanist and monsters.  The classes just fall into place and, ideally, disappear entirely.You're absolutely right that it's not formative, and that's a feature, not a bug.  I think the archetypes section was meant to help people break out of the mind-set that a class is the end-all and be-all of what defines a character's role in society.  What's true for a Cleric or Akashic should not be true for an Armiger or Archer.Traits + Classes, yes, but also feats, and I think the feats + traits will be much more important than the classes.  Every culture will have some kind of "ranged attack guy", but not every culture will have the "Winter Born" trait or access to the same feats.  From a magical perspective, I suspect some methods and recipes will be common among some peoples and unknown to others.  Maybe one society's Arcanists are the only ones who know the spells to make purple dye, and they're also good sailors. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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