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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7313029" data-attributes="member: 6919838"><p>While i agree on the gaol stated at the end, we differ on the preferred approach.</p><p></p><p>i would be fine with and prefer if they said things like "unlike normal sialors a pirate's life focuses more on abc than def and so they get the following changes to the usual sailor..." and the same for say a formal "navy" vs the common merchant sailor. </p><p></p><p>i think this can be just as inspiring and relating the difference in background to the differences between areas or professions in a more explicit way.</p><p></p><p>Seeing each write-up as its own individual animal with its own separate list of bullet point features leads me to see them as a list of disconnected options on a menu and does not evoke in me the same degree of "what this means or where comes from" as would taking a baseline background and altering it, highlighting the differences both in terms of the bullet points and the lifestyle as linked elements.</p><p></p><p>"Soldiers in the ranks of the Ninth Order are often sent around to resolve lesser disputes over custom and law in outlying areas and so they gain proficiency in Insight and History as opposed to Intimidation and Athletics as they spend a lot of time adjudicating disputes and hearing pleas and cases."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7313029, member: 6919838"] While i agree on the gaol stated at the end, we differ on the preferred approach. i would be fine with and prefer if they said things like "unlike normal sialors a pirate's life focuses more on abc than def and so they get the following changes to the usual sailor..." and the same for say a formal "navy" vs the common merchant sailor. i think this can be just as inspiring and relating the difference in background to the differences between areas or professions in a more explicit way. Seeing each write-up as its own individual animal with its own separate list of bullet point features leads me to see them as a list of disconnected options on a menu and does not evoke in me the same degree of "what this means or where comes from" as would taking a baseline background and altering it, highlighting the differences both in terms of the bullet points and the lifestyle as linked elements. "Soldiers in the ranks of the Ninth Order are often sent around to resolve lesser disputes over custom and law in outlying areas and so they gain proficiency in Insight and History as opposed to Intimidation and Athletics as they spend a lot of time adjudicating disputes and hearing pleas and cases." [/QUOTE]
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