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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9697856" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Does your character need mechanics to reflect every story decision you make about them? Are they all lies?Like, if I decide my character is an orphan, does that need a mechanic or else it feels like a lie? I don't get it. I never have. What makes mixed ancestry so different that it also needs mechanics distinct from any of the parent species, and if so, then why should those mechanics be limited to the two particular mixed species that Tolkien mentioned? Shouldn't we have mechanics for all the possible combinations?And if we go down that route, isn't it pretty inevitable that players start mathing out exactly the best combinations for optimization, rather than focusing on the sotry of their character? Plus, character creation becomes way more complicated.</blockquote>