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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 733869" data-attributes="member: 7701">Been done (not to take anything away from your post, of course). The 3e Arabian Adventures conversion did just that thing to emulate the very specific 2e kits to that setting. Did it pretty good, too.And, I'm surprised rounser and others didn't mention it here until now - yes, 2e kits are much like 3e templates. Pretty much the same thing.Now, not to speak for rounser, but there *is* something to be said for a "character concept" to be further validated by specific rules, that are unique. Yes, unique. Not just Dodge/Expertise/I'm a swashbuckler. Sure, you can call yourself that - but many groups (and I'm willing to submit *most*, the rather non-relevant sample that the ENWorld community is notwithstanding) will not accept that. The other party fighters, looking at their character sheets, shouting out "I am too!"  or "I could be that easily", or simply laughing and saying "uh, no - you're not - I have the same feats as you". There *are* pretty much only 4 feat chains in the entire PHB... (Power Attack chain, Archery chain, Expertise chain, and Dodge chain.)Generally, gamers want *mechanics* to back up their roleplaying concepts (whether other posters want to admit this or not). If your group is comprised of wonderful roleplayers and/or amateur ac-TORS (vague Kids in the Hall reference), that's great. However, I'm suggesting that most would like to see mechanics to back up their claims. (The whole "Path" series of books and sick proliferation of PrC's being eaten up by the d20 masses lends credence to this suggestion.) Can these kits/templates be added to 3e? Of course they can. However, what I'm thinking is that rounser is suggesting that they be made part of the game (ie. done for players) as opposed to all the effort required of adding them in on ones own [please correct me if I'm way out to lunch, rounser]. This is not an unreasonable suggestion (though, of course, there is the whole "nothing-is-wrong-with-3e-don't-change-a-thing" brigade [I love that!] that rounser mentioned). Gotta watch out for them! <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=";)" />I would agree that "character templates" might be the best way to achieve this. (It's what I've done when re-engineering the 2e kits for my campaign - made it much like skill swaps, etc.)</blockquote>

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