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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 6750868" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Really, only with wizards, monks and druids present this problem. Maybe your PC has some primal urges and repressed wrath that he/she learns to channel into rage (you are now a barbarian), has dabbled here and there on many things but after experimenting the world has learned how to inspire (bard), has been praying so hard at night that one deity has finally paid attention and granted him/her divine power (cleric), after witnessing so much combat has learned how to fight better (fighter), has a tuning moment when he or she makes a solemn oath and the devotion empowers him/her (paladin) and so on.It isn't limited to only people who plan all in advance, each time I make a new PC I don't really know anything about the future of that PC, not even if I will even take a second level on the original class. One PC I had was a textbook example of this, my sorcerer was a gish who was always looking to spar with strong people, getting into fights and courting death at any opportunity, Wis penalty and all. In the end I took my second level in paladin when the party paladin died -I was always acting like a clown and messing with him- and my rogue best pal too. My PC was chaotic, but as hell broke lose and with so many deaths I made a vow to never rest before peace was restored and turned the page, until the end of the campaign -shortly after making an heroic sacrifice- my PC was the moral center of the party.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 6750868, member: 6689464"] Really, only with wizards, monks and druids present this problem. Maybe your PC has some primal urges and repressed wrath that he/she learns to channel into rage (you are now a barbarian), has dabbled here and there on many things but after experimenting the world has learned how to inspire (bard), has been praying so hard at night that one deity has finally paid attention and granted him/her divine power (cleric), after witnessing so much combat has learned how to fight better (fighter), has a tuning moment when he or she makes a solemn oath and the devotion empowers him/her (paladin) and so on. It isn't limited to only people who plan all in advance, each time I make a new PC I don't really know anything about the future of that PC, not even if I will even take a second level on the original class. One PC I had was a textbook example of this, my sorcerer was a gish who was always looking to spar with strong people, getting into fights and courting death at any opportunity, Wis penalty and all. In the end I took my second level in paladin when the party paladin died -I was always acting like a clown and messing with him- and my rogue best pal too. My PC was chaotic, but as hell broke lose and with so many deaths I made a vow to never rest before peace was restored and turned the page, until the end of the campaign -shortly after making an heroic sacrifice- my PC was the moral center of the party. [/QUOTE]

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