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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9329630" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>This response doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I know this thread of the conversation has been stretched out over many days, so maybe a brief recap is in order:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On April 7, you proposed the abilities granted by the background features be removed from the player-facing backgrounds and inserted into DM-facing adventure texts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On April 15, I asked how, if your proposed arrangement, in which no handles are provided to the player in the background, was implemented, would a player then use their background in play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You replied, "That is the point, he does not", which I took to mean the player simply doesn't use the background.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On April 21, I asked what's the point in a player having a background they don't use, meaning the type of background you proposed with no handles for the player.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Then I got the above quoted response from you.</li> </ul><p>It's puzzling because you seem to be saying the type of background you proposed, that has no way for a player to use it, should go extinct, which can't be right, so I think something must have gotten lost somewhere.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, you said it yourself in your adventure text description, "Because he knows how it is to be looked at by higher people".</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, it's a fine explanation for the folk hero's background doing something, much better than the parody version, but how does the player of the folk hero know the coffinmaker will be helpful towards their character as opposed to the player of, e.g., the noble, or is this supposed to be a blind choice on the part of the players?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 9329630, member: 6787503"] This response doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I know this thread of the conversation has been stretched out over many days, so maybe a brief recap is in order: [LIST] [*]On April 7, you proposed the abilities granted by the background features be removed from the player-facing backgrounds and inserted into DM-facing adventure texts. [*]On April 15, I asked how, if your proposed arrangement, in which no handles are provided to the player in the background, was implemented, would a player then use their background in play. [*]You replied, "That is the point, he does not", which I took to mean the player simply doesn't use the background. [*]On April 21, I asked what's the point in a player having a background they don't use, meaning the type of background you proposed with no handles for the player. [*]Then I got the above quoted response from you. [/LIST] It's puzzling because you seem to be saying the type of background you proposed, that has no way for a player to use it, should go extinct, which can't be right, so I think something must have gotten lost somewhere. Well, you said it yourself in your adventure text description, "Because he knows how it is to be looked at by higher people". Yeah, it's a fine explanation for the folk hero's background doing something, much better than the parody version, but how does the player of the folk hero know the coffinmaker will be helpful towards their character as opposed to the player of, e.g., the noble, or is this supposed to be a blind choice on the part of the players? [/QUOTE]
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