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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9380924" data-attributes="member: 57073">Too late. Upthread, I've already broken down one of these backgrounds and used it to highlight something awful and negative to justify changing the way ability bonuses are assigned...And frankly, I don't regret saying it. I find it absolutely absurd that D&D continues to use mechanics which associate only certain, specific character origins with high Intelligence. As if absorbing, processing, and recalling knowledge is somehow unique to one particular lifestyle.Even if a game mechanic which ties ability scores to specific backgrounds didn't have any potentially problematic implications at all, it would still interfere with character creation. It would, for example, make it extremely hard to ever implement the classic "diamond in the rough" trope, where a character from an unlikely background just happens to be extremely good at something they have no right being good at when suddenly given the chance, just because they're awesome like that.</blockquote>