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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9227576" data-attributes="member: 82106">The other aspect of this, which I pointed out in my last post, is that customization of characters in 4e can be pretty deep. Class is a substantive thing, but not a big mechanical barrier since the other classes have the same underlying 'language', so 4e MCing works, but you could never implement that in 5e or 13a, certainly not without a lot more work that would have to be tweaked for each new class you add. Same with feats, most of them work for everyone, because things are all described in the same way.The RESULT of this, is a lot of ability to create themed characters and such. For example you can have an entire party of 'Secret Agent' characters who are experts in stealth, surveillance, using light gear and concealed weapons, etc. They can be ANY class and all still have all the core features required to operate together as a team doing whatever such teams might do in a given campaign. You can have the sneaky stealth Wizard, the sneaky stealth Cleric, Ranger, Warlord, Fighter, etc. etc. etc. Each one will still retain its core class feature based unique combat role, as well as certain unique non-combat capabilities and play differently. The Wizard will probably be the terrain bypassing enabler, the rogue maybe a sniper/scout type, the fighter a black-clad stealth heavy, etc. It works GREAT!Heck, with reflavoring you can go FAR FAR down that path with 4e due to the flexibility of this core base system. I recall once there was a guy who made all the characters from Return of the Jedi as level 1 4e PCs, just with their gear and abilities reflavored. It was GOOD too! I mean the whole thing obviously worked well, it wasn't even really a kludge. Not to say that would work for every genre or milieu, but realistically any likely D&D-esque fantasy trope milieu that wants steep power curves will work with 4e, more-or-less.</blockquote>

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