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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8441979" data-attributes="member: 20564">The point was that if Yaarel was right about taking culture out of races, things like elven weapon proficiencies, which we have NOT seen, and using background to replace them, it would be overloaded onto Background.So they are presenting that the background: Myth Drannor (famous for elves) Acolyte would have elven cultural traits, such as languages and elven weapon training, as well as the parts of the Acolyte background.&nbsp; A Sword Coast Acolyte would have the Acolyte background ... and need balancing cultural traits.&nbsp; Not that I know what they are, I think the idea of overloading background with culture is the wrong move.What I can see that you can't have one background granting the background's worth of traits PLUS a bunch of additional bonuses for what's currently racial cultures, and another background giving a subset of those, just for the background itself.&nbsp; So all of those cultures would need to have &quot;equal&quot; traits designed for them if you want to follow Yaarel's plan.My plan is exactly like they have already done in Tasha's - allowing trades of things like languages, skills, and armor/weapon proficiencies to meet the culture you are trying to portray, same as drow are different than high elves back in the PHB.&nbsp; In other words, go with the official route.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8441979, member: 20564"] The point was that if Yaarel was right about taking culture out of races, things like elven weapon proficiencies, which we have NOT seen, and using background to replace them, it would be overloaded onto Background. So they are presenting that the background: Myth Drannor (famous for elves) Acolyte would have elven cultural traits, such as languages and elven weapon training, as well as the parts of the Acolyte background. A Sword Coast Acolyte would have the Acolyte background ... and need balancing cultural traits. Not that I know what they are, I think the idea of overloading background with culture is the wrong move. What I can see that you can't have one background granting the background's worth of traits PLUS a bunch of additional bonuses for what's currently racial cultures, and another background giving a subset of those, just for the background itself. So all of those cultures would need to have "equal" traits designed for them if you want to follow Yaarel's plan. My plan is exactly like they have already done in Tasha's - allowing trades of things like languages, skills, and armor/weapon proficiencies to meet the culture you are trying to portray, same as drow are different than high elves back in the PHB. In other words, go with the official route. [/QUOTE]

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