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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MyISPHatesENWorld" data-source="post: 4450248" data-attributes="member: 65684">Rubbish. The good roleplayer doesn't always take mechanically inferior choces, the bad roleplayer who is just there to kill monsters loses nothing in taking any background because none of them prevent him from killing monsters, and you can always change fluff around a mechanic since no background has a requirement. If backgrounds would screw people in your game, it is because of you, not the mechanic itself.I find the mechanics to be neither awful nor unbalanced. But from this you're saying that an article that contained a list of awful and unbalanced mechanics that didn't include a challenge would be OK? You're disagreeing with me because it is easier to mischaracterize what I 'seem to think' and rail against those mischaracterizations to attempt to make your views look valid than it is to actually support your point.We're talking about the specific bonuses in this article, not some imaginary host of freebies. These specific bonuses (of which a character gets a single one) aren't unbalancing.A character with a high charisma score is better at social skills than someone that doesn't have a high charisma. And by default will be better at all social skills. But, that doesn't mean he has a "right" to always be better at each social skill regardless of the comparative resources expended to improve a specific social skill on another character.How are you getting "the mechanical advantages of dumping charisma" out of this? You really believe that +3 to Intimidate from a background is the same as the mechnical benefit of having a high CHA? Let's take a look...CHA 10, background providing a bonus of +3 to Intimidate:+3 to IntimidateCHA 20, not selecting a background providing a +3 bonus to Intimidate+5 to Intimidate, +5 to Bluff, +5 to Streetwise, +5 to Diplomacy, +5 to CHA based powers, +5 to CHA based class abilities, +5 to WILL defense, and the option to take any background.or even CHA 16, not selecting a background providing a +3 bonus to Intimidate+3 to Intimidate, +3 to Bluff, +3 to Streetwise, +3 to Diplomacy, +3 to CHA based powers, +3 to CHA based class abilities, +3 to WILL defense, and the option to take any background.But, even if you feel that +3 to Intimidate is mechanically better than being able to make weapons and armor, and cast creation rituals without needing the ritual caster feat, that doesn't make the backgrounds any more unbalanced than skills themselves, feats or powers, all of which have varying degrees of utility.</blockquote>

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