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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5474356" data-attributes="member: 19675">No, you're not.&nbsp; It's part of the core game concepts &amp; base mechanics.&nbsp; They first showed up formally as &quot;package deals&quot; in either the Adventurer's Club periodicals- their equivalent to Dragon- or HERO 3rd or 4Ed, but that was just giving a name to one way of using the rules.A &quot;class&quot; in a HERO D&amp;D sim is no more arbitrary than any other package deal in the game, like &quot;policeman,&quot; &quot;reporter,&quot; &quot;scientist,&quot; &quot;elf,&quot; &quot;werewolf&quot; or what have you- which you can see in the core handbook.&nbsp; Each package deal is a set of defined skills, powers, limitation and whatnot that you improve upon by spending XP on within the package.&nbsp; The only real diffference is that you'd be limiting when players could spend XP to improve their PCs, since the default is that you can spend them anytime between adventures.IOW, it is not a class based system, but contains within it the ability to be run as such.In addition, I'm surprised that Mercurius hasn't squawked on this- one key contention of his was that the essence wasn't dependent upon mechanics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5474356, member: 19675"] No, you're not. It's part of the core game concepts & base mechanics. They first showed up formally as "package deals" in either the Adventurer's Club periodicals- their equivalent to Dragon- or HERO 3rd or 4Ed, but that was just giving a name to one way of using the rules. A "class" in a HERO D&D sim is no more arbitrary than any other package deal in the game, like "policeman," "reporter," "scientist," "elf," "werewolf" or what have you- which you can see in the core handbook. Each package deal is a set of defined skills, powers, limitation and whatnot that you improve upon by spending XP on within the package. The only real diffference is that you'd be limiting [I]when[/I] players could spend XP to improve their PCs, since the default is that you can spend them anytime between adventures. IOW, it is not a class based system, but contains within it the ability to be run as such. In addition, I'm surprised that Mercurius hasn't squawked on this- one key contention of his was that the essence wasn't dependent upon mechanics. [/QUOTE]

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