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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7568785" data-attributes="member: 6919838"><p>This gets directly to what i was pointing out - for any given campaign - how the backgrounds manifest is totally dependent on the GM, the player and the setting. Why would a basic PHB intended for a variety of settings and a system where homebrew settings are very strongly represented in play have any serious amount of space devoted to chaining a core character feature to only one of them?</p><p></p><p>My game isn't set in Thule or in FR so that would be wasted space. </p><p></p><p>Instead, for my campaign, its up to me and the player to determine together how much we want that going forward - mostly in play - with me giving them options and them choosing which if any to take up. </p><p></p><p>Your complaint seems to be boiling down to the PHB did not tie itself to a single setting in its core mechanics unlike Thule which is a specific setting.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest that that is not the role of a core system book, but of a setting book, but even then, there are many more options a player and Gm can imagine.</p><p></p><p>BTW back in 3.5 a woman who joined our game role-playing her first game on her 60th birthday chose exiled noble and wanting to retake throne as her character "background" aka "concept" and it focused a lot of the campaign play - without any Thule-based rules list to choose from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7568785, member: 6919838"] This gets directly to what i was pointing out - for any given campaign - how the backgrounds manifest is totally dependent on the GM, the player and the setting. Why would a basic PHB intended for a variety of settings and a system where homebrew settings are very strongly represented in play have any serious amount of space devoted to chaining a core character feature to only one of them? My game isn't set in Thule or in FR so that would be wasted space. Instead, for my campaign, its up to me and the player to determine together how much we want that going forward - mostly in play - with me giving them options and them choosing which if any to take up. Your complaint seems to be boiling down to the PHB did not tie itself to a single setting in its core mechanics unlike Thule which is a specific setting. I would suggest that that is not the role of a core system book, but of a setting book, but even then, there are many more options a player and Gm can imagine. BTW back in 3.5 a woman who joined our game role-playing her first game on her 60th birthday chose exiled noble and wanting to retake throne as her character "background" aka "concept" and it focused a lot of the campaign play - without any Thule-based rules list to choose from. [/QUOTE]
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