Unless you use a character creation system that progresses a character through each stage in their lives up to now, it is what you're doing, whether you prefer to think about it that way or not. Race and class partly determine how the character interacts mechanically with the game world.
I would like a life path as an option, yes. In any case, a character that starts as a class feels unrealistic to me. As you said in the other thread though, I guess we have to always go with what the majority wants.
Yeah they unnecessarily complicate it because Pathfinder. It's a whole mini game where you have to work backwards and read a textbook just so that you can... choose the ASIs that benefit your class.
Character creation isn't "realistic," never has been.
You take every piece you can get, and every piece you lose makes me just a little sadder.
Making the structure mirror actual play is a good thing: and putting Class first is how I see people conceive characters. That's the point of a Class system.
I see quite a lot of people trying to contort the predefined classes & subclasses to fit their specific concepts, myself. Or doing homebrew classes like I mentioned elsewhere. With all these digital platforms that is both easier & harder to do, just in different ways.
People would conceive characters differently if the material was presented differently.
It's been presented Race then Class for as far back as I can remember, yet people would still start with a Class concept then hash out the details. Thst makes this change particularly sensible to me, because people are already following a certain pattern in spite of the structure, making the structure follow the path people tend towards will probably make the game more accessible.
Fine. I'm glad they're designing the new version of D&D to what are apparently your exact specifications.
I wouldn't have thought of it, myself, even though it's how I see it done. It's just clever design, focused on improving the user experience.
Just remember that a design you think is clever is just subjectively so. Same as me.
No, whether you enjoy it or not is subjective. Whether it works better for most players is something that WotC can test and measure.
Yes, but whether or not something is "clever" is subjective. That's what I'm saying. I was calling out your claim that the design was clever being objectively true.
Making a decision that does an end run on what is obvious to meet customer needs better is clever.
I'd put them in the stat generation section.
When a character dies in a session at our table 9 times out of 10 when we ask the player "What's your next character?" the answer is what class they are going to play. 1 times out of 10 it's a race. Never once has "Folk Hero" or "Sailor" been an answer.
