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In terms of DPR it is ok, it is not great because you need to give up your action to let your familiar attack. You can't use Bardic...

I have not seen anyone try to regularly spam this yet, despite multiple games played through level 20 using 2024 rules, so I can't speak...

#3 does not scale well vs a fighter into tier 4 in terms of damage, in part because of the action to cast it and in part because of the...

Well that is an interpretation, although I am not sure many tables will allow it. That said, why have the background tied to mechanics...

The thing on the Sailor background (wrt monk) is that, on its own, the Sailor background exactly fits what you'd expect a sailor...

That’s brilliant. I’m gonna do this in my upcoming campaign. Frees up the player choice of background for flavour and theme over...

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It is not a houserule it is in the PHB* If WOTC modeled their new backgrounds around the rules they published telling you how to use...

I think it is and I have played with dozens of groups from many countries. I think high fantasy and high magic is the norm for D&D...

There are specific mechanics associated with the words. You can hombrew this, but if you are playing RAW when you make the command they...

It is super meaningful. I would notice as soon as I put my character together. The Origin Feat is not that great. Looking at it...

Exactly. The feat given by the background is objectively weaker because of this, and her we are not talking about a class, where you...

When you are talking about mechanics this means a 2 point decrease in your primary ability and the loss of a feat that synergizes with...

They do say this explicitly for ability score increases though, on page 38 of the 2024 PHB: "If you’re using a species from an older...

Well yeah it bleeds over, it is a high fantasy, high magic game, but I think that is representative of most modern D&D games. Only one...