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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jezter6" data-source="post: 3919798" data-attributes="member: 6567">Well, you should like True20 then.A role consists of the follwing:1 Core Ability - It's the one cool thing that all persons of that role get and can be activated with your conviction points. Adepts ability allow them to use any power. Experts grant a monster skill bonus to a skill of their choosing (which makes them different than the other expert in the group) for a whole scene, and warriors get to recover from damage more quickly than adepts and experts.1 - skills points/level package.1 - Attack bonus/save bonus/reputation bonus package.1 - access to role specific feat lists (which are huge, as is the 'any class' feat list)That's it. That is ALL that 2 characters of the same role have in common.They get 4-5 feats at first level, which can all be different. They get a new feat every level that can be different.The only thing keeping a role like a 'class' is the skills/combat bonus/save 'package' per level. It's to keep you from getting uber skill bonus, uber combat bonus, and uber save bonuses. It keeps that little bit of fair balance between the classes. Two warriors will have the same combat bonus. But the myriad of feats mean that at level 3, both experts in your party don't get the same 'find traps' ability like all the other d20 systems do. At level 3, each expert can pick their own darn ability by picking a feat.Role is nothing in True20 like class is in d20.Considering how truly generic the roles are, I don't understand how you find them limiting? A role is just a collection of stats and access to a feat list. You can freely multiclass into adept to get some adept powers. The reason you have to do that is to keep you from getting a monster attack bonus AND the cool use of powerful magic. If you could get both, then there's no reason not to take the uber cool class that allows you all the adept magic with all the combat god stats of the warrior.It's there to keep balance. Also, if you want to create your own roles, the companion gives you a balanced way to do that. If you don't want everyone running around with magic, then remove the adept from your game and create a balanced class that focuses on martial arts and limited access to powers.Or, just use the adept as is and describe it as martial arts. No reason a power has to look like a wizard casting spells.Edit: removed an inaccuracy in my post about 2 experts having the same saves. I forgot that expert gets to choose 1 save as good and 2 saves as normal.</blockquote>

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