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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 2891512" data-attributes="member: 29206">Yeah, but they're not going to actually benefit at all. Seriously, for an example, I have a greatsword-wielding Paladin 3/Fighter 9 here who wants to seek a new path in life. So he decides to draw 3 cards from the deck. Using their random draw, I get...Innate Magic. Well, I don't qualify for that, so I redraw.The Zealot. Okay, so I lose 4 ranks from one of my crappy Fighter skills and gain 2 ranks of Knowledge (religion), since it's cross-class.The Weakling. Okay, so I lose 4 points of Strength (um...), dropping it from 18 to 14. This nets me 7 point buy points, which I use to bump my Constitution from 16 to 18 and, on a whim, my Dexterity from 13 to 14.The Moon. Alright, I'm a werebear now. I need to buy off my 6 racial HD and +3 LA now, which drops me to being a 3rd-level Paladin that goes around as a giant monster with 30 Strength. Well, I guess that one IS pretty interesting.If I hadn't drawn the Moon, though...The Ranger's Dilemma. I'm not a Ranger, so I redraw.Saving Grace. I don't have any of the saving throw bonus feats, so I redraw.The Vigilant. I never really cared about Knowledge (religion) and thought it was sorta lame that I was forced to take it, so I retrain the ranks of that into Spot.Alright, you might be able to argue that turning into a werebear constitutes an interesting new path in my character's life, but if I hadn't, I would have lost Strength (my primary attribute for using my weapon!) and gained some random skill ranks in skills I don't care about, either because I was a dumb fighter (Knowledge (religion)) or because having a +2 to Spot checks helps very little at character level 12.Maybe I could have built some roleplaying around my sudden new interest in religion, but for the most part instead of making my character different, the Deck very simply made him worse.</blockquote>

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