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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 8956486" data-attributes="member: 205">Yea, playbooks were one of the first things I thought of as a compromise between "complete freedom of choice" and "fixed pre-gen characters."  Playbooks give the character a definite trope or hook that ties into the campaign story, but there's a broad freedom to fill in the trope with any amount of aesthetic (and some mechanical) difference.I also think with the recent trend of high production value Kickstarters, you could definitely see a product with a swath of "MOBA-type" characters, say with minis and high-quality character art, where the characters have the mechanical equivalent of a few cantrips and a feat, some fixed scaling, and the rest of the progression as "diegetic" (story rewards and magic items).</blockquote>