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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bad Paper" data-source="post: 1876153" data-attributes="member: 24674">favored class is a social thingIt seems to me that favored class is a social thing, e.g. dwarves tend to become fighters because that's part of their culture.  Indeed, all dwarves undergo that dodging-giants training anyway.Someone raised as an elf would spend a century as a child playing with magical baubles and watching the adults perform amazing/beautiful feats of wizardry, hence, a tendency for all elves to view wizardry as a natural choice.Halfling culture is about resourcefulness and resilience, hence the tendency toward roguishness.  Half-orcs are mocked and picked on by whomever raises them, so they quickly learn to be the schoolyard bully...Imagine if a dwarven fighter/wizard were reincarnated as a gnome.  Why would his favored class suddenly become bard?  This would be absurd; gnomes tend toward bards because they are chatty and gossipy and showy.  Someone raised as a dwarf would continue to be gruff and standoffish, and would not suddenly feel the need to become a bard.Swapping low-light vision and darkvision is easy.  What about training?  Would that dwarf-turned-gnome lose his stonecunning?  That doesn't seem right.  Would the elf-turned-halforc suddenly not know how to make boots of elvenkind?Note that boots of elvenkind do not require the wearer to be an elf; they only require someone with the knowledge of an elf create them.  I would say that a magic item that requires the user be an elf MUST be created by an elf.</blockquote>

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