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I don't agree. You have fully half the stats to pick bonuses from. That's pretty darn flexible. And for most backgrounds, two or three of the remaining stats just don't make sense.

Those things are useful, but they are not the primary reason you are a criminal. You don't go out and make things always go wrong so that you can endure them. You practice your pickpocketing and lockpicking(dex) so you can be successful at it, you are a criminal mastermind(int), or you are a...

I had the local vet put chips in mine.

There is a good reason not to do it your way. Sense. It doesn't make sense for soldier to grant any stat. It makes sense for it to grant strength or constitution. Perhaps dex for those trained as scouts. Don't put words in my mouth. I never said that, and in fact I said the opposite. Talk...

I can definitely see that modular means different things to different folks. For me modular meant that each major chunk of the game was a module. Magic for example would be a module that could be removed and another completely different magic system could be inserted in its place.

Hardly. That is counterbalanced by "If just one D&D player likes the bonuses attached to backgrounds, that's a pretty compelling reason to have it that way." If you want it to be unattached, get your DM to detach the bonuses. As it currently stands, the bonuses mostly make sense for the...

The +1 is so inconsequential that it will almost never have a visible or meaningful effect in game play.

It really depends. What I do is to funnel the RP through the charisma of the PC, so a player who stumbles and isn't eloquent, but has a PC with a 20 charisma, will sound really well spoken to NPCs. The reverse is also true, the eloquent voice actor types who have low charisma PCs will sound to...

If by debilitating you mean barely an inconvenience, you are correct. Stat bonuses in 5e mean very little.

And your min maxing is an even less compelling reason to change it from the way it is.

It's actually only a problem if the group isn't into realistic social interactions. Look at the real world. People who don't speak well almost never sit back and let the one charismatic person in the group talk to someone. They like to chime in as well, because people want to be heard and...

Yeah. I completely agree. My point is that while 3e standardized energy types and assigned "force" to Magic Missile, in AD&D it was just magical energy and was not necessarily force damage at that time. It could have been any type of magical energy, or no type at all.

Planescape is one of my favorite settings, but I never liked that weird art.

My least favorite art of any edition is from 2e Planescape.

Right, but magical energy =/= force. It can, but doesn't have to. 2e didn't specify what the energy was, while 3e specified force.

That was probably because even wind blowing harder than 50mph would be enough force destroy the hut. An attack would apply more force than that.

In 1e Spiritual Hammer was a field of force. Unseen Servant was made of force. Bigby's Forceful Hand. Leomund's Tiny Hut was a sphere of force. And so on. Then there were Cubes of Force as a magic item. There were a number of force spells/effects.

Or, and work with me here, don't pick the soldier background and then tank strength. If you create the problem, it's YOUR problem, not the game's.

Old war injury keeping you from lifting, pushing, dragging, hitting as much as you used to. Or you're a paper pusher army clerk. Or... Just takes a bit of imagination.

In 3e Orcs invaded Rashamen or Thesk(can't remember which) with the Zhentil Keep army. The Zhents abandoned the orcs when they left and the orcs were absorbed into the society of the country they invaded. They became farmers, merchants, workers and some even rose to positions of authority such...