Limits to Backgrounds/Themes?

[Connorsrpg]

Also, don't forget, Themes simply are a way to gain packaged feats. If you were to make you own theme, modify one, or just pick feats as you go there is full choice.

Grouping feats into the themes is more for flavour and, I imagine, ease of use. It sounds like you will not be bound by them.

 

[GX.Sigma]

I'm certainly not expecting ALL themes to be limited, but I feel like, in order to strike a balance between mundane and broken, some themes are just going to need some kind of restrictions.

Kind of the whole point of backgrounds and themes is that they're layers of customization that aren't tied to class. Even the Necromancer theme, Mearls said something like "If you're a Fighter, you can take the Necromancer theme, it just won't do anything for you." (And I strongly oppose even that much class dependance in themes--school specialization should be a sub-choice in the Wizard class--but that's another thread.)