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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 3044255" data-attributes="member: 30709">Another idea for favoured classes, this time one that's only relevant for Gestalt games: what if each character had rather than a favoured class, a favoured Gestalt combo?  One half could be racial as usual, the other would be based on his country/town/religion/etc: so, all the forest-dwelling Halflings of a setting might have "Rogue/Ranger" as a Favoured class, but the more savage northern ones have "Rogue/Barbarian".  You can expand this with non-core classes to theme races and sub-races to your whim: you may have evil Elves living around Volcanoes packing "Dread Necromancer/Fighter", but the noble Elves of the coast are "Wizard/Knight".  Both would be melee/mage types, but would play and feel very different.In this variant, Favoured Class:Any races could either require the player to pick a combo for his character, or one part would be picked by his background and the other be a wild card: so a human from a land with a strong Druidic tradition might have "Druid/Any" as his favoured class, and thusly his highest level Druid gestalt combo doesn't count for multiclassing.This does still have the same issues mentioned in my first post regarding favoured classes: it still would only matter if you were multiclassing, so if this rule is combined with the "feat every five levels of favoured" rule I think it could be funky.  Furthermore, by picking odd combinations of classes for a race, you can both encourage the use of non-core classes you don't see often and help make your game world unique: a whole Orc tribe might have a totemic tradition and thusly have "Barbarian/Binder" as a favoured class, a combo your players would never have thought of.</blockquote>

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