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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8568571" data-attributes="member: 19857">IMO the way to add the feat to a background is to have the player choose between a feat or the initial +2 bonus to 1 ability score that everyone is going to get with the new race rules.&nbsp; That keeps it in line with the way feats already work (as an exchange for an ability score increase), keeps the power level in line with the current rules, and almost keeps in line with how the Variant Human works (in comparison they still get an additional +1 bonus and an extra skill in comparison, but that's not too far off).The Background could then be explicitly written to say that if you give up your +2 bonus to a stat at character creation you can choose the feat instead.&nbsp; (Potentially you could just open it up to allowing anyone to give up the +2 bonus in exchange for a feat at 1st level and the Background feat is just a recommended one - I'd prefer that approach but that's because I prefer to let tables and players have more flexibility rather than less when it comes to things like that).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8568571, member: 19857"] IMO the way to add the feat to a background is to have the player choose between a feat or the initial +2 bonus to 1 ability score that everyone is going to get with the new race rules. That keeps it in line with the way feats already work (as an exchange for an ability score increase), keeps the power level in line with the current rules, and [I]almost[/I] keeps in line with how the Variant Human works (in comparison they still get an additional +1 bonus and an extra skill in comparison, but that's not too far off). The Background could then be explicitly written to say that if you give up your +2 bonus to a stat at character creation you can choose the feat instead. (Potentially you could just open it up to allowing anyone to give up the +2 bonus in exchange for a feat at 1st level and the Background feat is just a recommended one - I'd prefer that approach but that's because I prefer to let tables and players have more flexibility rather than less when it comes to things like that). [/QUOTE]

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