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Also not Culture, especially within the context of a game, in which 'Culture' would be a rules container, and is, in other expressions...

If a background can be found in more than one culture, then it, by definition, cannot BE a culture. Your use here of backgrounds in...

Thats fine, I find many choices also bizarre, but thats explicitly what Backgrounds are. Pre-Adventure occupation or experience.

We've gone back and forth on this before, more than once. No one's going to change their mind.

Backgrounds aren't cultures, they are professions prior to taking up the adventuring life.

There is no such premise. AFAIK, WotC has never once hinted that a change from a Humanoid type to some other was done for the purpose of...

As far back as Dragon magazine articles on the Goblin deities as opposed to the orc deities, I picked up on this. I was getting old...

I can not for the life of me parse what this means in relation to Backgrounds in 5E 2014.

Agree. Level Up did it right. Other D&D variants followed that path, by and large, but WotC decided to be difficult and do their own...

In Level Up, any heritage/species can be any culture. This is to my mind simply a better way to handle it. It solves the issue entirely IMO.

Well, if the Eberron setting was made using Level Up, Orc characters would get to choose from three distinct Orc cultures. The...

Level Up presents a more interesting take on Orc culture. The simple name “orc” often has the prejudice of thousands of years of...

Mainly from the "adrenaline" take, I am associating 5e Orc with internet influencers that film themselves doing insanely dangerous stunts.

They should have just made the Eberron orc the standard orc. It is like the one time they have ever gotten it right. The 5E 2024 orc is...