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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8585286" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As a rule, I favor carrot design with almost everything. I'm a huge believer in the power of &quot;yes,&quot; and generally prefer to see subtractive/penalty-based things that are used as costs for failure or accepted consequences, rather than inherent and default states. Note, general preference, not universal.Hence, I prefer things like the 4e way of encouraging people to consider various class/race combos. Not by penalizing off-archetype choices (e.g., half-orcs with a Cha penalty), but by giving opt-in bonuses to on-archetype choices (e.g. dragonborn and tieflings having cool opt-in Paladin features, like racial feats). I prefer a baseline of general, decent competence; from there, different classes, races, etc. have various quantities and qualities to throw at having an edge of some kind. The ideal, for me, is where on-archetype choices (e.g. &quot;Dragonborn Paladin&quot;) get you an edge within that archetype but leave you weaker outside it unless you spend resources to make up the difference later, while off-archetype choices (such as &quot;Halfling Paladin&quot;) start you out as a pretty diverse character, and you can choose to get an edge in any of those things later.That's why I gave the example I did earlier. Something like: &quot;all weapons work on skeletons, but Skeletons have the Fragile tag, which means you take the better of two damage rolls if using a weapon with the Bashing tag.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8585286, member: 6790260"] As a rule, I favor carrot design with almost everything. I'm a huge believer in the power of "yes," and generally prefer to see subtractive/penalty-based things that are used as costs for failure or accepted consequences, rather than inherent and default states. Note, [I]general[/I] preference, not universal. Hence, I prefer things like the 4e way of encouraging people to consider various class/race combos. Not by [I]penalizing[/I] off-archetype choices (e.g., half-orcs with a Cha penalty), but by giving opt-in [I]bonuses[/I] to on-archetype choices (e.g. dragonborn and tieflings having cool opt-in Paladin features, like racial feats). I prefer a baseline of general, decent competence; from there, different classes, races, etc. have various quantities and qualities to throw at having an edge of some kind. The ideal, for me, is where on-archetype choices (e.g. "Dragonborn Paladin") get you an edge within that archetype but leave you weaker outside it unless you spend resources to make up the difference later, while off-archetype choices (such as "Halfling Paladin") start you out as a pretty diverse character, and you can choose to get an edge in any of those things later. That's why I gave the example I did earlier. Something like: "all weapons work on skeletons, but Skeletons have the Fragile tag, which means you take the better of two damage rolls if using a weapon with the Bashing tag." [/QUOTE]

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