Thank you.<br/><br/>What are shfiters like?<br/><br/>He doesn't have to be psionic.  As unimpressed as i am with the extremely minimal spellcasting options for sorceress, maybe draconic bloodlines sorcerer.  Or a really scrappy arcane trickster.  Or a really street smart eldritch knight?<br/><br/>Arslan is a big, strong lion-shifter who's family works the High Steel in Sharm.  Known by the local women as someone who'll stand up for them.<br/><br/>Arslan's family were poor.  They had great strength and special power, but that wasn't making them rich in Sharn.  Arslan figured after beating up a few bullies to protect his cousins and the neighborhood girls, "You know, this hero thing is kind of fun.  Construction workers don't get rich.  My da' did construction in Sharn all his life.  On his sixtieth birthday he fell off of a tower and died.  Did he really slip?  Or did he just  know that he was getting too weak to work and didn't want us to have to take care of him?<br/><br/>"I don't want to die that way.  I want to die in a nice house, with cute maids taking care of my family.  I want a couple of women who love me to kiss me my last good night.  I want to give powerful gifts to my grandchildren with the stories of how i got them.<br/><br/>"Heroes can get rich, if they live long enough.  Heroes find lost treasures and save besieged villages and accept the gratitude of virgin daughters.  That's the life i want."<br/><br/>"I can think.  I can fight.  I can work.  I can be a hero."<br/><br/>So Arslan saved up for a few years for adventuring gear and left to seek his fortune.<br/><br/>In 3.5 Arslan was kind of a ,"Live by my wits," warrior, who used parkour and a dagger in most fights, and could throw down with a few powers when he needed to hit hard, or Shift when he needed to be really strong.  (3.5 Shifter Wilder archetype could use egoist powers, so he learned stuff like Thicken Skin for natural armor, and wore a mail shirt.)<br/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>I could play either way, but I honestly really like the idea of including the Game Within The Game in the story.  i think it truly completes the experience, even if it slows things down a tad bit.