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<blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 7925295" data-attributes="member: 7020832">This is an interesting point I want to dig into a bit more.adhoc seems to suggest players create non-standard characters because they want the mechanics but don’t want to be restricted by the fluff, like they are trying to “game the system”.Except, what I have seen, and which applies to pretty much every example in this thread, are cases where the player has a defined character or archetype in mind and wants to reflect that.Chaosmancer wants to explore a member of the nobility with powers tied to the reverence of his ancestors.&nbsp; Ancestral Guardians Noble Barbarians does that.5e doesn’t have cambions as a PC race, but an infernal tiefling warlock comes close, as does a red dragon tiefling sorcerer.5e doesn’t have splatbooks that come out every 2 months with new prestige classes, races and spells, and I like that because I find refluffling existing mechanics to be better from a balance perspective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrozenNorth, post: 7925295, member: 7020832"] This is an interesting point I want to dig into a bit more. adhoc seems to suggest players create non-standard characters because they want the mechanics but don’t want to be restricted by the fluff, like they are trying to “game the system”. Except, what I have seen, and which applies to pretty much every example in this thread, are cases where the player has a defined character or archetype in mind and wants to reflect that. Chaosmancer wants to explore a member of the nobility with powers tied to the reverence of his ancestors. Ancestral Guardians Noble Barbarians does that. 5e doesn’t have cambions as a PC race, but an infernal tiefling warlock comes close, as does a red dragon tiefling sorcerer. 5e doesn’t have splatbooks that come out every 2 months with new prestige classes, races and spells, and I like that because I find refluffling existing mechanics to be better from a balance perspective. [/QUOTE]

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