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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6239570" data-attributes="member: 17106">If the DM (or the game writers) wants you to play a ridiculously exaggerated nonmagical character, the tools are all there. Just give someone better ability scores or a better starting level, really. That's what levels are for.If the DM has given you an ability array and a starting level, and a rules system establishes parameters for using those to create a character, and the concept in your head is not achievable to your satisfaction using those constraints, I would say that the problem lies with the person whose idea doesn't fit inside the box, not the box.And I have seen this play out. I'll give the players a mandate to make a character at level 1 with good but not godly ability scores, and they'll come back with a background that says &quot;my character is the leader of the seven tribes, a fearsome warlord whose subjects bow down to his divine destiny&quot;. The answer is no. That's not what I told you to make. I told you to make a level 1 character.Same thing for this daring swashbuckler deal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6239570, member: 17106"] If the DM (or the game writers) wants you to play a ridiculously exaggerated nonmagical character, the tools are all there. Just give someone better ability scores or a better starting level, really. That's what levels are for. If the DM has given you an ability array and a starting level, and a rules system establishes parameters for using those to create a character, and the concept in your head is not achievable to your satisfaction using those constraints, I would say that the problem lies with the person whose idea doesn't fit inside the box, not the box. And I have seen this play out. I'll give the players a mandate to make a character at level 1 with good but not godly ability scores, and they'll come back with a background that says "my character is the leader of the seven tribes, a fearsome warlord whose subjects bow down to his divine destiny". The answer is no. That's not what I told you to make. I told you to make a level 1 character. Same thing for this daring swashbuckler deal. [/QUOTE]

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