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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elethiomel" data-source="post: 4939350" data-attributes="member: 49897">When it comes to character building there are several schools of thought. I'll describe two that I think are common.The first sees class and feat flavor text (fluff) as important and tries to find feats, classes, and prestige classes where the fluff fits the character theme while not being underpowered.The second sees class and feat fluff as largely irrelevant and tries to find feats, classes, and prestige classes where the mechanics (crunch) fits the character theme without being underpowered.I belong to this second school of thought. The fluff will often be setting-specific, anyway. Making a character I have an idea of what skills they have picked up during their career, and what they aim to be good at, so I pick up feats and classes to represent that, regardless of what that class or feat says it's supposed to represent. TL;DR: I see classes and feats as packages of abilities with prerequisites.Some would consider this second approach to be counter to the spirit of the system, metagaming, or even munchkinism. I don't - but then I largely play in homebrew settings where much of the official fluff is irrelevant anyway.</blockquote>