Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5023546-20130910031001/@comment-24286479-20131214043653

I think that a character's ability should be determined by the character's  history, having backgrounds instead of classes.Not only can the backgounds determine basic stats they can also determine what kinds of people your character likes or if they are apart of any guilds or groups (like the white fang) that would give them special abilities or connections. in RWBY a person's fighting style is heavily imbedded into there personality, which is determined by past experiences. also a character's personality also affects their aura too, so useing backgrounds would also help in determining what an aura can do.In addition since there are only two races we would also want to consider making sub- races like a cat faunus( like blake ) for the faunus and for humans we could do maybe social class or kingdom , giving humans and faunus  sub- races would give good divisions between certain kinds of people that would make for good character dynamics