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I don't. Instead, I work through things like the following, using "I" to mean "my character" for brevity: What am I feeling? (Rage...

Okay. Folks have repeatedly said they should, or said things about how backgrounds somehow invoke culture. If they do not actually say...

So...when you said "I consider backgrounds to be the participation in various cultural institutions.", what did that mean? Because that...

You ask this as though 5e does not have a default setting...because it pretty clearly does.

I find them far, far, far too generic to serve any such capacity. "Scribe", "Merchant", "Artisan", "Criminal". What, in any way...

I fully agree. As said above: being 3PP, it may as well not even exist, as far as what is actually accessible to me as a player. It...

Culture should mean something more in D&D, not less. Anything your characters learns while growing up in a particular culture, like the...

3PP is functionally useless to me as a player, so it doesn't really matter how amazeballs the product is, I'm 99.99999% surely never...

And yet culture matters less, mechanically, than species--which hardly matters at all. Like culture literally has no impact on your...

This is a total tangent (apologies in advance), but this is actually a setting element in my 5e games. Gaining levels in a single class...

I get this. The thing with skills n such is, when you get used to them they stop being 'buttons' and become roleplaying aides. But if...

This ties into my big beef as a player with 5e. If you do not multiclass then for most classes once you have hit level 4 you can reach...

At least in my experience, that stance is.....highly unusual. Not the opposition to MC, though, rather the willingness to consider...

Certainly. I would say that the ethos (good word!) of early-edition D&D tended toward: Logistics-focused play -- your items and...

That's all very well said, thank you. I am realizing it's a mindset issue, not a quality issue. If I do run 5e again, I have to think...