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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6148507" data-attributes="member: 6696971">It would be interesting if we could dissect what proportion of gamers predicate their design interests on designer modules and designer adventures.  It seems that there is a decent cross-section of people who advocate positions based on the impact of those modules and pre-written adventures.  I do not currently, nor ever have, considered what I want out of a ruleset (D&D or other) based on the potential impact to modules or pre-written adventures.  I wonder how often this leads to cognitive dissonance on this board (when its not canvassed as the cornerstone, or at least a pillar, of someone's agenda).Back to the subject.  5e should take a cue from its Trait portion of Background design and extend that.  It was immediately my favorite part of the ruleset and appending those sorts of features to Fighters, Rogues, Rangers, et al would do the trick nicely.  For instance, one of the character's in my 4e games is a Macgyver type and has a suite of powers that he puts to good use in non-combat conflict resolution.  One of those is called "A Tool for Everything" where basically he has the narrative authority to come up with a tool (either something on the spot that he jury-rigs or something he's had in his pack for just such an occasion) that would be immediately useful to whatever is happening within the fiction (and roll the relevant check for his current panel in the Skill Challenge).  The same goes for something like the Peerless Exploration Martial Practice (It reads basically exactly like a Background Trait with some codified mechanics to buff and resolve some potential conflicts) whereby an accomplished scout/outdoorsman can deftly accrue the knowledge of any bodies of water, suitable campsites, settlements, and  ruins, as well as the presence or absence of hostile inhabitants in an extended area after a short period of reconnaissance; thus warding a campsite and cancelling any possibility of random encounters during travel (basically cueing transition scene a la Wizard Teleport).  5e could easily pull this off using the spirit of its Background Traits.</blockquote>

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