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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9442273" data-attributes="member: 18">You can do /rolleyes all you like, but the cold reality is, that's not really how D&amp;D has ever operated. D&amp;D has always been very clear when you can and can't swap things, and about 95% of DMs tend to follow the rules re: what you can and can't swap. Your /rolleyes-ing is really undermined by the fact that 2014 absolutely clearly knew this, and that's why customizing backgrounds/custom background were explained the way they were - it's why it was called out! They didn't just leave it to chance, because they knew people wouldn't realize it.So yeah, that's not likely to happen unless players know backgrounds are designed to be customized (which is no longer information that will be in the PHB), and worse, some DMs will just say no, because the game has trained them to say no to that. Some of them likely won't have read or won't remember the section from the DMG saying about customizing backgrounds (assuming there even is one).Also you say &quot;Oh I don't mean create something new&quot;, but realistically, a lot of players will want to swap out basically everything in a certain background except for the lore/concept, so they absolutely are &quot;creating something new&quot; in a sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9442273, member: 18"] You can do /rolleyes all you like, but the cold reality is, that's not really how D&D has ever operated. D&D has always been very clear when you can and can't swap things, and about 95% of DMs tend to follow the rules re: what you can and can't swap. Your /rolleyes-ing is really undermined by the fact that 2014 absolutely clearly knew this, and that's why customizing backgrounds/custom background were explained the way they were - it's why it was called out! They didn't just leave it to chance, because they knew people wouldn't realize it. So yeah, that's not likely to happen unless players know backgrounds are designed to be customized (which is no longer information that will be in the PHB), and worse, some DMs will just say no, because the game has trained them to say no to that. Some of them likely won't have read or won't remember the section from the DMG saying about customizing backgrounds (assuming there even is one). Also you say "Oh I don't mean create something new", but realistically, a lot of players will want to swap out basically everything in a certain background [I]except[/I] for the lore/concept, so they absolutely are "creating something new" in a sense. [/QUOTE]

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