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For my part, it's just...I have seen so, so, so many instances of "but it's what my character would do!!!!" as a crap-awful excuse for...

Im far more likely to buy into this arc idea than the absolutist archetype. The absolutists are the types that just declare things like...

Well, to give you a good example of a background I felt was missing from 5.0, and which hasn't been matched in 5.5e yet to the best of...

And I do not.

There will be thousands, yes. Is it useful to have thousands of them as options? Or is it useful to articulate relevant, interesting...

Really, really looked like we were gonna bite it, and then we finally took down the big bad and the enemy's power collapsed with her...

For my part, this is why I have always spoken for key racial features. Dragonborn have dragon breath, faster healing, and a frenzied...

That's a great way to describe how it works in real life; it's a terrible model for a fantasy roleplaying game. Everyone says they want...

Don't own the book, so I can't say. If they've done that, then cool, that would be a (teeny tiny) improvement. Which just means WotC is...

Forgotten Realms. I thought that was quite obvious. Given, y'know, a third or more of all the books really are about the FR and only...

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...