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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 5595117" data-attributes="member: 27897">I like the idea, but I think that multi-classing might well then become the new tool for optimization. Someone else had posted an intriguing idea, about splitting the feats into two groups; combat related and non combat related. This might satisfy all sides of the issue or, more likely, dissatisfy everyone a little, which is generally the way to tell that something has been well negotiated. It would require some rekigging of the feats, to create a clear delineation between the two classes of feat, but it could be done.I think that such things should be kept separate from background options though. Perhaps you could discover that you were born to a noble family when you reach 8th level, and express that by spending a feat to acquire 'Noble Birth', but something like that strikes me as just too contrived. 'Characterization' feats should probably be used to unlock background benefits, rather than suddenly popping a complete character changer into the mix. You hit 8th level? Well now you can acquire that lesser family steading that has no tangible benefit, other than to provide a fairly secure haunt for the party, between adventures.For role playing stuff, not mechanical benefit. OK, not mechanical benefit in combat.It's not a bad thing to allow some combat customization but maybe that should be kept to being able to make yourself better with heavy blades (+1 attack), at the expense of not being as good with other weapons (-1)?</blockquote>

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