<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=254080.msg12616089#msg12616089">Quote from: Guancyto on 31-08-2016, 05:49:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It is sort of weird to me how in 5e all the path features only show up at level 3; Paladins get their Oaths to determine if they're Batman or Captain America or Swamp Thing, Fighters find out whether they're a 3e Fighter or a 4e Fighter or a Duskblade, Warlocks get their book or their imp or their lightsaber, Sorcerers get metamagic, etc.<br/><br/>Of course, given how fragile 1st-level characters are, I guess it's like back in the day when infant mortality was high, and you didn't name a baby until you were reasonably sure it was going to survive...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I have a half-assed (non-mechanical) answer, mainly observing Pathfinder, but seems to be consistent among other systems such as 5e: Think of it as a vocation to a degree. If you are a chef, the first thing you cooked consistently for a while were soups and salads, even though your goal is to make a badass marinated steak. But when it finally became "steak day," you were READY, and you probably already practiced on your own at home (with many a sirloin casualty.)<br/><br/>Translate that to, say a fighter: Lv1, you just graduated proverbial junior-high, and while you have learned many a weapon, you probably chose to focus on only a couple, prepping for those feats once you've gotten better wielding it. So with some training, you can stab it with a backflip instead of a boring lunge.<br/><br/>Or a druid: Obviously they had been casting and morphing, but then at lvl 3, they chose which to focus on, greatly boosting the potential of one while not throwing away the other skills, but probably using it significantly less.