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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1477558" data-attributes="member: 3400">I didn't think of his posts as being abrasive so much as sounding like he was deliberately being dense given some of the posts already in the thread that had answered his point.But the point I'm making about all of this is that there are different levels of options in play. You can take a class that has more flexibility in the long run or a class that has more tailored powers. That's an option that the player makes based on what he wants to play and in no way implies that the classes are deficient or unbalanced. They are different&nbsp; in how they present choices to the player. That's all. But BelenUmeria has a very good point about approaching your character. You can play someone from a barbarian culture without being a barbarian class. You can also play a barbarian class without being from a barbarian culture. Basically, think up the character concept you want to play and then figure out what crunchy bits get you there. I wanted to play a dwarven berserker, but one from the standard dwarven culture and that means they aren't particularly barbaric. So I took the barbarian class and bought literacy. He's not technically a barbarian in the sense that he's from a barbarian-style culture, but that's what his class is.Had I wanted to play a barbarian with a lot of choices about how I wanted to develop a style of fighting, I'd have made a fighter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 1477558, member: 3400"] I didn't think of his posts as being abrasive so much as sounding like he was deliberately being dense given some of the posts already in the thread that had answered his point. But the point I'm making about all of this is that there are different levels of options in play. You can take a class that has more flexibility in the long run or a class that has more tailored powers. That's an option that the player makes based on what he wants to play and in no way implies that the classes are deficient or unbalanced. They are [i]different[/i] in how they present choices to the player. That's all. But BelenUmeria has a very good point about approaching your character. You can play someone from a barbarian culture without being a barbarian class. You can also play a barbarian class without being from a barbarian culture. Basically, think up the character concept you want to play and then figure out what crunchy bits get you there. I wanted to play a dwarven berserker, but one from the standard dwarven culture and that means they aren't particularly barbaric. So I took the barbarian class and bought literacy. He's not technically a barbarian in the sense that he's from a barbarian-style culture, but that's what his class is. Had I wanted to play a barbarian with a lot of choices about how I wanted to develop a style of fighting, I'd have made a fighter. [/QUOTE]

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