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<blockquote data-quote="Capellan" data-source="post: 581664" data-attributes="member: 6294">Well, it depends what &quot;fighting the barbarians&quot; means.&nbsp; It could mean &quot;months and months of sitting in a drafty borderland fort, being bored out of my mind 99% of the time&quot;.The problem is that sometimes you ask for a background and the players feel like they have to be all heroic in it.&nbsp; When really, of course, they don't.&nbsp; The hero bit is still to come.&nbsp; It can be a bit embarassing if you are a bigger hero before the game starts than after it, after all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've tried giving XP for backgrounds in the past, but I've not been satisfied with the results.&nbsp; It's better in 3E than it was in 2nd Ed, but the advantage of the work that was done still dissipates too quickly for my tastes.Hence my plan to try equating background with extra points for purchasing ability scores.&nbsp; We'll see how that goes in my next game.&nbsp; And at least no-one will be able to bitch about the dice, that way!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Capellan, post: 581664, member: 6294"] Well, it depends what "fighting the barbarians" means. It could mean "months and months of sitting in a drafty borderland fort, being bored out of my mind 99% of the time". The problem is that sometimes you ask for a background and the players feel like they have to be all heroic in it. When really, of course, they don't. The hero bit is still to come. It can be a bit embarassing if you are a bigger hero before the game starts than after it, after all :) I've tried giving XP for backgrounds in the past, but I've not been satisfied with the results. It's better in 3E than it was in 2nd Ed, but the advantage of the work that was done still dissipates too quickly for my tastes. Hence my plan to try equating background with extra points for purchasing ability scores. We'll see how that goes in my next game. And at least no-one will be able to bitch about the dice, that way! [/QUOTE]

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