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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6310883" data-attributes="member: 7006">In terms of the page count placement of the Warlock... there's also always the possibility that they are putting the Background section in before the Class section because of the timeline of which a character would come to their various choices.  Race choice occurs upon the birth of the character.  Background choice occurs prior to becoming an adventurer.  Class choice occurs as the character becomes an adventurer.  So the chapters could be in order of a PC's life.  And as a matter of fact... you might even possibly see the Ideals, Flaws, and Bonds inserted in there as well, possibly coming in after Background and before Class (assuming those are all a part of the standard game and not a DMG module-- even if they aren't necessarily required for all campaigns.)This kind of temporal order of chargen chapters would be especially useful if the DMG included a module like many RPGs have that is a formatted "complete history of a character" type of chargen.  Where you follow step-by-step the pathways of a PC's life starting as a child, through maturity... selecting (or rolling randomly) various pieces of the PC's history up until they become their Class and begin as an adventurer.Not saying this is definitely what the books are doing... but I also wouldn't be surprised if they changed up the classical presentation in order to accommodate it.</blockquote>