Character Background Customization

[Zakilevo]

Title: Character Background Customization
Summary: When creating a character, ask few questions to determine skill levels on top of the current age based system.

ex) As a child you often
a) played your sword (+1~3% swordfighting)
b) wrote diaries and poems (+1~3% bureaucracy)
c) played war games with other children (+1~3% leadership)
d) read books about famous people and their inspiring speeches (+1~3% oratory)

Or if possible, make these choices determine the future skill gain chance of your character. If your character practiced with his sword as a child, then make it easier for him to gain sword/joust skills when he practices. Same goes for other choices.

On top of that maybe adding an option to choose which faith to start with might be nice.

Benefits: I think this gives a bit more flavor when you are creating a character and may help people with new players who does not know much about the game decide which path they want to choose.

Possible Downsides or Exploits: More coding. Might not be as interesting as I think it is.

[JDodger]

I prefer actual ingame actions determining skill gain and dislike the potential for this to be a min/maxing powergamey feature, no matter how minor.

[Indirik]

Kind of sounds more like a"pick your bonus" exercise. I suppose that given enough questions, it could be interesting, if the actual bonus wasn't explicitly provided.

[Zakilevo]

Kind of sounds more like a"pick your bonus" exercise. I suppose that given enough questions, it could be interesting, if the actual bonus wasn't explicitly provided.

obviously bonuses should be hidden and questions should become more ambiguous so you know a bit about what you are choosing but don't know exactly what kind of bonuses you are getting.