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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinak" data-source="post: 6038798" data-attributes="member: 6694112">I don't like specialties for a totally different reason: Locking in your character advancement track during character creation.One of the weaknesses, in my opinion, of 3rd (and Pathfinder to a lesser degree) is having to plan out your prerequisites for feats and prestige classes. So you're often planning out a couple levels ahead of your character rather than letting them grow organically.Specialties take that to an absurd level. The game is, in essence, telling you to map those choices out from character creation to at least 10th level, probably all the way up to top level.The design decision to take the customization of 3rd or 4th Edition and cram it all into character creation frankly baffles me. Why wouldn't you want to make a couple choices, get playing now, and customize the character as you find out its role in the group and the setting?Cheers!Kinak</blockquote>