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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5353860" data-attributes="member: 3424">While I like the idea of themes, this is one issue about them that bugs me: they aren't as concrete a concept as race and class. Hence, as more varied aspects are covered under themes, there seems to be less and less reason (apart from purely mechanical balance) why a character should only be restricted to one. For example, if there are half-race themes, background themes and society or faction themes, you can't have a dhampyr templar or an elan member of the Veiled Alliance. On the other hand, stretching feats to do this bugs me less, possibly because a character will eventually have more than one feat.Ideally, (at least for me) the set of themes open to characters should somehow be mutually exclusive: for example, the idea of using themes for dragonmarks in an Eberron campaign, or themes for factions in a Planescape campaign is something I can get behind. Similarly, I would be fine if a generic campaign had themes for being born under different star signs, or themes for being a devoted worshipper of different gods in the campaign, but not both at the same time.</blockquote>