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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5070790" data-attributes="member: 2">I'll challenge you on this one! I can easily imagine a 98-pound weakling who has a 20 strength and a 17 constitution - that's Elric in a nutshell, assuming he's using his drugs or Stormbringer as a special effect/plot device to justify the scores. In a D&D setting, imagine a physically scrawny tiefling whose ancestors' pacts with the lords of Hell manifest by giving him an unnatural strength and vitality that he clearly shouldn't have. For me, the same thing is reasonable for taking a sorcerer and calling him a wizard. He'd be shunned by his fellow wizards for his ordinary mind and unorthodox casting style, but I'm happy to let him call himself a wizard if it's more fun for the player. Similarly, I'd let an avenger act like a paladin if he wanted to, including having a place in the temple's hierarchy. I'd rather not have class mechanics always trump story.</blockquote>