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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8230368" data-attributes="member: 29398">Thing is, I'd like to get away from mechanical customization and put a lot of it into sheer flavour and personality.&nbsp; You can have six characters running on exactly the same mechanical chassis (e.g. six basic Fighters) and yet each will be vastly different from the others in play simply due to their role-played quirks, personalities, language, etc.&nbsp; That's what I'm after.Racial and-or cultural differences (be they mechanical or not) overlaid on this just add to the possibilities.Poisoner, for example, should be a baked-in class feature for Assassins and maybe some specific Cleric types, and not available to anyone else. (i.e. anyone can try using poisons but those trained as Poisoners are much better at it)Linguist sounds like a background; i.e. something you only have to choose (or roll) once and may or may not have any mechanical effect beonyd perhaps - again only once, at char-gen - giving you knowledge of an extra language.Observant?&nbsp; If you mean alertness, i.e. harder to surprise, 1e baked that in as a Ranger feature and that always seemed like a good place for it, though a solid case could be made for baking it into Rogues and maybe Bards as well.&nbsp; In any case it's easy to lock in as a class feature.&nbsp; If by 'observant' you mean something else, please elaborate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8230368, member: 29398"] Thing is, I'd like to get away from mechanical customization and put a lot of it into sheer flavour and personality. You can have six characters running on exactly the same mechanical chassis (e.g. six basic Fighters) and yet each will be vastly different from the others in play simply due to their role-played quirks, personalities, language, etc. That's what I'm after. Racial and-or cultural differences (be they mechanical or not) overlaid on this just add to the possibilities. Poisoner, for example, should be a baked-in class feature for Assassins and maybe some specific Cleric types, and not available to anyone else. (i.e. anyone can try using poisons but those trained as Poisoners are much better at it) Linguist sounds like a background; i.e. something you only have to choose (or roll) once and may or may not have any mechanical effect beonyd perhaps - again only once, at char-gen - giving you knowledge of an extra language. Observant? If you mean alertness, i.e. harder to surprise, 1e baked that in as a Ranger feature and that always seemed like a good place for it, though a solid case could be made for baking it into Rogues and maybe Bards as well. In any case it's easy to lock in as a class feature. If by 'observant' you mean something else, please elaborate. [/QUOTE]

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