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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9333021" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Well, why would you think they're being dropped if it wasn't because they were not being used? And, if they aren't being used, why do you think that is?</p><p></p><p>200 pages of you and others insisting that these backgrounds won't function is pretty much all the proof I need. As if it would break the game for someone's criminal background to send a message to someone through the Vistani. OH NOES, the HORROR. The campaign is utterly ruined. They managed to send a letter home!!!! They managed to do something that any 5th level wizard could do, far more reliably and far faster. The campaign!!! It is dead beyond redemption.</p><p></p><p>I mean, holy crap. The party wants to rest the night in a town. The player invokes his Folk Hero background and gets a night of rest and saves 2 gp. THE HORROR!!! The entire campaign has gone down in flames and is utterly ruined.</p><p></p><p>But, yeah, you are 100% the reason why background features are going away. You and every other DM who steps up to the player and demands that the player, who only has a fraction of the knowledge of the campaign world, justifies sufficiently, to you, that this minor ribbon ability can function. Gee, I wonder why players don't do it more often. It's a complete mystery. I am baffled.</p><p></p><p>So, the players knowing that these abilities are going to be nothing but a pain in the ass, just don't use them. Has nothing to do with how they are written and everything to do with the fact that they know these abilities are unreliable. A feat? Feats always work. Never a problem. So, we get feats. Problem solved and everyone is happy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9333021, member: 22779"] Well, why would you think they're being dropped if it wasn't because they were not being used? And, if they aren't being used, why do you think that is? 200 pages of you and others insisting that these backgrounds won't function is pretty much all the proof I need. As if it would break the game for someone's criminal background to send a message to someone through the Vistani. OH NOES, the HORROR. The campaign is utterly ruined. They managed to send a letter home!!!! They managed to do something that any 5th level wizard could do, far more reliably and far faster. The campaign!!! It is dead beyond redemption. I mean, holy crap. The party wants to rest the night in a town. The player invokes his Folk Hero background and gets a night of rest and saves 2 gp. THE HORROR!!! The entire campaign has gone down in flames and is utterly ruined. But, yeah, you are 100% the reason why background features are going away. You and every other DM who steps up to the player and demands that the player, who only has a fraction of the knowledge of the campaign world, justifies sufficiently, to you, that this minor ribbon ability can function. Gee, I wonder why players don't do it more often. It's a complete mystery. I am baffled. So, the players knowing that these abilities are going to be nothing but a pain in the ass, just don't use them. Has nothing to do with how they are written and everything to do with the fact that they know these abilities are unreliable. A feat? Feats always work. Never a problem. So, we get feats. Problem solved and everyone is happy. [/QUOTE]
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