JoeNotCharles
First Post
We've had an unofficial policy that we only allow two types of backgrounds: our official regional benefits, and PHB2 style backgrounds (meaning, backgrounds which give a list of skills and optionally languages, and the player has the option of: gaining a +2 untyped bonus to one of the skills; adding one of the skills to their class's skill list; becoming fluent in one of the languages).
Sources with other backgrounds (such as the FRCG and the Scales of War backgrounds article from Dragon) were either voted down or not proposed. But with the new proposal system, some of these other backgrounds became legal, because we never specifically made a proposal about them. So rather than propose each of them for exclusion individually, I propose we adopt the above as an official rule.
To date, the items which this would automatically ban (as far as I know) are:
Dragon 366: the Scales of War backgrounds article
Dragon 371: the backgrounds in the Legacy of Acerarak article, which look like PHB2 backgrounds but have additional bonuses
Dragon 376: the regional benefits from the Adventurers of the Realms and Sarifal articles
If my main proposal doesn't pass, I also propose we ban each of these individually
Sources with other backgrounds (such as the FRCG and the Scales of War backgrounds article from Dragon) were either voted down or not proposed. But with the new proposal system, some of these other backgrounds became legal, because we never specifically made a proposal about them. So rather than propose each of them for exclusion individually, I propose we adopt the above as an official rule.
To date, the items which this would automatically ban (as far as I know) are:
Dragon 366: the Scales of War backgrounds article
Dragon 371: the backgrounds in the Legacy of Acerarak article, which look like PHB2 backgrounds but have additional bonuses
Dragon 376: the regional benefits from the Adventurers of the Realms and Sarifal articles
If my main proposal doesn't pass, I also propose we ban each of these individually