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It didn't use to be a factor! So far it was perfectly possible to have a sage barbarian with 16 strength and not having to justify it. Why is it suddenly something only a powergamer minmaxer would do?

That was just a tangent to that tangent. I've just finally gotten up to date with Dr. Stone and was quickly reminded of him. Still he had his follower from the background feature n_n. Let me bring this in order. To me backgrounds in 5e are mostly if not entirely about roleplay and getting a...

The crux of the discussion is that that sidebar won't be there, or at least not in the phb and will be gated behind DM approval.

I might have done it by accident, so please quote me at the point I demeaned or invalidated the style.

Hulk anyone?

There's nothing fishy. We have teo choices that used to be independent of each other and now we have to find ways around in order to contort one with the other just because of a pointless design decision that removed customization where it used to exist. And I come to this from the opposite...

And that's where 90% of DMs I've played with failed.

I'm reminded of Doctor Stone. When they needed an experimented sailor, they ended up picking a rich guy with an obsession for yachts. He was the best around.

But minmaxers aren't the only people who like to customize.

As a DM, I'm open to allow players to go nuts with their characters, but as a player I hate Mother-may-I for character creation.

Te more I think about it, the more I'm liking Origin as a term. Because it is more open that way. Maybe a character is one of a kind like an homunculus, a golem, an artificial construct, an awakened animal, a modified member of a living group - vampires anyone?- or a someone who has a people. No...

But we had a narrative something that had lore, art, and visibility. It could be tweaked and improved on. Now we have nothing, only "you are truly one or the other" or maybe "something you can hope to get to play at most once". Also I can't let go of the awfull feeling that came upon hearing...

@TiQuinn this is a matter of representation. For a lot of us mixed people half-elf is representation in the fiction, a way for us to project onto the fiction. Losing it in the way that it was lost was insulting and upsetting.

My headcanon is that the sequels are from a timeline where Luke didn't learn anything, didn't redeem Vader and thus Palpatine survived.

Oh, indeed. My favorite terms are kin, folk or origin. People/peoples and even kind or type work too.

I'm on your side here, but there's room to pull a thread that way. Not the same baggage, obviously, but there is some.

It didn't prevent the creation of Fate, or One Roll Engine, nor Savage Worlds. So many publishers focusing on a single system let breathing room for the jewels to shine instead of .

He wasn't using the OGL either.

I'm not exactly glad. The whole debacle hurt the trust in creating OGC. Yes, the srds in CC are fine and the ORC is dandy, but a lot of game content is stuck as OGC, and the loss of confidence in the OGL may make it harder to defend in the future.

Even a bad horse can be made into plenty jello and paste.