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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 5994691" data-attributes="member: 23484">The biggest positive from my perspective in the latest playtest packet is the range that Backgrounds and Specialties bring to character diversity.&nbsp; They help me build the characters I want to play (even if they aren’t especially optimized), giving the flavor of multiclassing from level 1, without imbalancing things.Now anyone can be a Soldier, with a skill layout to cover basic training. You might not have been a good Soldier (and that makes a cool story too), but a Sorcerer with a Soldier background sounds really fun to me. Priest and (specialties) Acolyte and Healer take away some of the niche of Clerics, but it’s a niche that haven’t been supported in ply much anyways. I LOVE the idea of a Rogue Priest – the fact that marriages or whatever are being conducted by a Rogue rather than a Cleric is really exciting.I also love that High Elves are racially predisposed to be Necromancers.The effect of these builds will be small – so what if a fighter can stabilize the dead with Death’s Door, or a cleric can cast magic missile? – but, as presented here, the rules help resolve the tyranny of the class system and give some great opportunities for building flavor.Will any of these 5 builds break the game and need to be nerfed? Absolutely not.&nbsp; They provide options that (understandably) won’t appeal to everyone, but for me they are exactly what I am looking for: providing diversity to builds without power-creeping splatbooks, and I want to try each one.Any thoughts?.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobold Stew, post: 5994691, member: 23484"] The biggest positive from my perspective in the latest playtest packet is the range that Backgrounds and Specialties bring to character diversity. They help me build the characters I want to play (even if they aren’t especially optimized), giving the flavor of multiclassing from level 1, without imbalancing things. Now anyone can be a Soldier, with a skill layout to cover basic training. You might not have been a good Soldier (and that makes a cool story too), but a [B]Sorcerer with a Soldier background[/B] sounds really fun to me. Priest and (specialties) Acolyte and Healer take away some of the niche of Clerics, but it’s a niche that haven’t been supported in ply much anyways. I LOVE the idea of a [B]Rogue Priest[/B] – the fact that marriages or whatever are being conducted by a Rogue rather than a Cleric is really exciting. I also love that [B]High Elves[/B] are racially predisposed to be [B]Necromancers.[/B] The effect of these builds will be small – so what if a [B]fighter can stabilize the dead with Death’s Door[/B], or a [B]cleric can cast magic missile[/B]? – but, as presented here, the rules help resolve the tyranny of the class system and give some great opportunities for building flavor. Will any of these 5 builds break the game and need to be nerfed? Absolutely not. They provide options that (understandably) won’t appeal to everyone, but for me they are exactly what I am looking for: providing diversity to builds without power-creeping splatbooks, and I want to try each one. Any thoughts? . [/QUOTE]

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