Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
Living Worlds
Living 4th Edition
Backgrounds
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="TwoHeadsBarking" data-source="post: 4834325" data-attributes="member: 82251"><p>I feel like this may be one of those things that I'm going to spend too much time on.</p><p></p><p>Ok, two other ideas. </p><p></p><p>4. People can just choose whatever they want. Old characters leveling up can change their background to the PHB2 ones, just like they can currently change their background to a different L4W one. This is probably what I should have put in my first post for #1.</p><p></p><p>5. We take the conditional bonuses of the current backgrounds and make them really minor but simplified and equalized (probably a +1 conditional skill bonus). Then you get both a PHB2 background <em>and</em> a L4W mini-background. So, for example, a soldier from the Kingdom of Jade might have +2 to endurance (PHB2) and a +1 to social Bluff against foreigners (L4W).</p><p></p><p>"Quick" thoughts as to what the region bonuses would be:</p><p>Daunton: +1 to knowledge checks while in library.</p><p>Bacarte: +1 to Streetwise in Bacarte.</p><p>Valley of Bone: +1 to undead monster knowledge checks.</p><p>Kingdom of Jade: +1 social Bluff against foreigners.</p><p>Mykonos Sanctuary: +1 Endurance to go without food or water.</p><p>Imperium: +1 Diplomacy when addressing a crowd.</p><p>Isle of the Laughing Gallows: +1 Athletics while on a ship.</p><p>Ea: +1 to psychic monster knowledge checks. "Psychic" isn't a monster keyword, so this would apply to monsters whose attacks have the psychic keyword.</p><p>Feywild: +1 Perception while in Feywild.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, some of these are still better than others. Well, they're just examples.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwoHeadsBarking, post: 4834325, member: 82251"] I feel like this may be one of those things that I'm going to spend too much time on. Ok, two other ideas. 4. People can just choose whatever they want. Old characters leveling up can change their background to the PHB2 ones, just like they can currently change their background to a different L4W one. This is probably what I should have put in my first post for #1. 5. We take the conditional bonuses of the current backgrounds and make them really minor but simplified and equalized (probably a +1 conditional skill bonus). Then you get both a PHB2 background [I]and[/I] a L4W mini-background. So, for example, a soldier from the Kingdom of Jade might have +2 to endurance (PHB2) and a +1 to social Bluff against foreigners (L4W). "Quick" thoughts as to what the region bonuses would be: Daunton: +1 to knowledge checks while in library. Bacarte: +1 to Streetwise in Bacarte. Valley of Bone: +1 to undead monster knowledge checks. Kingdom of Jade: +1 social Bluff against foreigners. Mykonos Sanctuary: +1 Endurance to go without food or water. Imperium: +1 Diplomacy when addressing a crowd. Isle of the Laughing Gallows: +1 Athletics while on a ship. Ea: +1 to psychic monster knowledge checks. "Psychic" isn't a monster keyword, so this would apply to monsters whose attacks have the psychic keyword. Feywild: +1 Perception while in Feywild. Yeah, some of these are still better than others. Well, they're just examples. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
Living Worlds
Living 4th Edition
Backgrounds
Top