Re: Campaign Prospectus
Playing with the abilities vs characterization balance is a beloved and delicate process for me, and a big part of the fun of character creation. The notion of buying power skills without picking your powers, and building a character without seeing a racial template is confusing to me, to say the least.
It's a shame you're not into supers, as that is the genre that would be most conducive to the "write up a normal and we'll add cool stuff" dynamic.
The only idea that I was working on that wasn't giving me anxiety was a gadgeteer, but come this morning, that's on both your potential players' shortlist.
I'll ponder it a bit more and see if anything comes to me that I'm comfortable with pursuing in this framework, but I may have to pass on this one.
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