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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8740930" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I think it only feels this way because you’re filtering this though how backgrounds work in the 2014 PHB instead of taking this as written. Instead of thinking of this step as “choose a background” and having the option to customize a background, think of the step as “create your background,” and having the option to choose one WotC created for you. Because that’s what the packet says.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I think that would be a good decision. It is pretty odd to me that they decided to go with one language and one tool instead of two total between languages and tools. Not only because of what we’re discussing in this thread, but also because it’s weird that every PC in 1D&D is trilingual. I’ll definitely be bringing this up in my response to the survey.</p><p></p><p>But <em>some</em> background is going to need to grant Orcish if Orcish is going to exist as a language. And whatever background does that is going to have unfortunate implications about orcs. This is why I’ve come to the conclusion that the real problem here is that languages are racialized in D&D. They took the languages out of race without taking the race out of languages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8740930, member: 6779196"] I think it only feels this way because you’re filtering this though how backgrounds work in the 2014 PHB instead of taking this as written. Instead of thinking of this step as “choose a background” and having the option to customize a background, think of the step as “create your background,” and having the option to choose one WotC created for you. Because that’s what the packet says. Yeah, I think that would be a good decision. It is pretty odd to me that they decided to go with one language and one tool instead of two total between languages and tools. Not only because of what we’re discussing in this thread, but also because it’s weird that every PC in 1D&D is trilingual. I’ll definitely be bringing this up in my response to the survey. But [I]some[/I] background is going to need to grant Orcish if Orcish is going to exist as a language. And whatever background does that is going to have unfortunate implications about orcs. This is why I’ve come to the conclusion that the real problem here is that languages are racialized in D&D. They took the languages out of race without taking the race out of languages. [/QUOTE]
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