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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7418587" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I’d bet real money that every background gives one free Ability boost, and one choice between two Abilities to boost (possibly one physical and one mental), and that you can’t double them up. If this does turn out to be the case, I don’t see background choice becoming a char op decision. You’ll always be able to get a Boost in your primary abilility no matter what background you pick, and you’ll be able to boost your secondary ability with any background that has either of its two restricted boost options is either your primary or secondary. So, maybe you won’t see quite as many Clerics taking Street Urchin because they can’t boost both Charisma and Wisdom with it, I’m sure there will still be plenty who take it for roleplaying reasons or because they actually wanted a Dex boost anyway.My guess is, there won’t be a specific list of Lore skills in the playtest. You’ll be able to decide to take Lore skills as specific or general as you want, and the GM will be advised to go into more specific detail with what you can learn with a more specific Lore skill. For example, maybe the character with a more generalized “Undead Lore” to recognize a vampire and know that sunlight can kill it, where a character with a more specific “Vampire Lore” will know exactly what the vampire’s strengths and weaknesses are and might even know about this specific vampire and what he’s known for, that kind of thing.5e did this in its playtest too. It didn’t make it to print, and it probably won’t here either. Game designers really seem to  like that kind of “anything can be a skill, work with your GM to figure out the extent and limitations of skills you come up with” thing, and the majority players seem to prefer just having a list.</blockquote>

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