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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 1492189" data-attributes="member: 2167">The problem with the Core Flavor text of the sorcerer is the same that exists with the Barbarian.  You are correct Tuz that a "profession" or ones' class should have no reflection of culture or race involved. The Barbarian as written in its flavor text does not fit all cultures. It is biased and racist in its context to begin with.  It describes all barbarians in the light that Caucasions wrote of Native Americans on arrival in North America, or Africans on arrival in Africa. They describe them as basically uneducated heathens.  On a personal note I find it rather disconscerting, but I can set that asside.  From a fantasy point of view it is designed to be akin to the Cinematic version of Conan.  Still - in a fantasy setting the whole idea of the Barbarian being uneducated heathens doesnt work either, nor does it truly fit the class mechanic. The class should have dropped any cultural references in the flavor text - especially the inability to read, and simply named them Berserkers since the mechanic is more designed after a Viking Berserker.  Anway...The sorcerer suffers the same "racial/cultural" taint in the flavor text. In my sorcerer variant however, I had to decide to work With the flavor text instead of doing away with it - for one reason. The flavor text is the only part of the class that is NOT OGL. Thus I decided to create a class mechanic that was based on the flavor text and meant to match the flavor text - something I feel the core class doesnt even come close to.  In this way, I was hoping to make a class that more equally matched the description of what the class was meant to be.However, with that said, your idea falls very close to the idea WotC has used in their Psionic races. Races that are inherently psionic in nature. For example the Dark Sun Dwarf has an Innate Power of 3 power points and know the 1st level power Vigor. From a racial standpoint, if you wanted to create sorcerers as being innate, I agree with Ferret - that this could be done as +1 Level Adjustment template to the standard race; something more akin to the Shadowwalker template.Just some rambling thoughts.</blockquote>

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