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In literature and popular culture, characters are often defined by their faults than their abilities. Othello was gullible, and this enabled Iago to manipulate him. Han Solo was notable for his mercenary attitude. Captain Hook is remembered for... well, his hook. These faults, or drawbacks, lend color to the characters that have them. This d20 MasterKit product is designed to add these drawbacks to player characters.

Often, drawback systems tend to grant the player an extra Feat in return for taking a drawback, making starting player characters a bit more powerful. This can seriously unbalance a campaign. Character Drawbacks resolves this problem by granting skill points for each drawback instead of an extra Feat.

It is a common complaint among players that they never have enough skill points to accurately reflect what their characters know. Using this system allows for more skills to detail the character....but with the skill level caps still in place, player characters will not be seriously overpowered. Drawbacks are designed to add a little spice to a character concept and offer the player appropriate and significant compensation for taking them, not to create headaches for the Game Master.


All Text Within This Product is 100% Open Content.

Requires the use of a Roleplaying Game Core Book published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

d20 Modern, Dungeons & Dragons, and Wizards of the Coast are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used with permission. 'D20 System' and the 'd20 System' logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. and are used according to the terms of the d20 System License. version 5.0. A copy of the license can be found at www.wizards.com/d20

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June 16th, 2007
Having played with Flaws that grant feats I've seen how unbalancingly powerful they can be, especially early on. In some cases characters could qualify for prestige classes much sooner - and suffering a -1 penalty to ranged attacks isn't much of a hard [...]
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