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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9313213" data-attributes="member: 59816"><p>I'm not entirely sure how to respond to this because you've done your best to set it up as a "trap" scenario. I mean, obviously you're a clever storyteller and you've used your cleverness to come up with the hardest thing you could think of to make it as difficult as possible to make Background Features work. Congratulations!</p><p></p><p>But I've answered this already. They'd have to make new contacts. Yes, if your "win scenario" is that there'd be a time where their background features are "off-line" or simply "can't be played as-written" - then I'll grant you your victory!</p><p></p><p>But that was never my point. My point was only ever that it's (TO ME) extremely <em>easy</em> to make them work for a player, a table, or a DM who <em>wants them to</em>. It's still easy in your scenario. Have the PCs make new NPC "friends". There's got to be NPCs around that are cut from similar cloth, and if their isn't, why not? And I mean that why not both as "shrug, what difference does it make" and as "I can't imagine why there would <em>need</em> to not be any".</p><p></p><p>Obviously there'd be roleplaying involved. Does anyone think that there would not be any roleplaying on the part of the Players? I'd be very surprised to find that was true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9313213, member: 59816"] I'm not entirely sure how to respond to this because you've done your best to set it up as a "trap" scenario. I mean, obviously you're a clever storyteller and you've used your cleverness to come up with the hardest thing you could think of to make it as difficult as possible to make Background Features work. Congratulations! But I've answered this already. They'd have to make new contacts. Yes, if your "win scenario" is that there'd be a time where their background features are "off-line" or simply "can't be played as-written" - then I'll grant you your victory! But that was never my point. My point was only ever that it's (TO ME) extremely [I]easy[/I] to make them work for a player, a table, or a DM who [I]wants them to[/I]. It's still easy in your scenario. Have the PCs make new NPC "friends". There's got to be NPCs around that are cut from similar cloth, and if their isn't, why not? And I mean that why not both as "shrug, what difference does it make" and as "I can't imagine why there would [I]need[/I] to not be any". Obviously there'd be roleplaying involved. Does anyone think that there would not be any roleplaying on the part of the Players? I'd be very surprised to find that was true. [/QUOTE]
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