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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9442629" data-attributes="member: 18">This is quite funny because you're saying &quot;Omg ur so wrong&quot; and literally all your examples support my point!You're not breaking rules at all - you're doing exactly what I said DMs usually do - using reflavouring and Custom Lineage, neither of which break the rules or swap anything out - they're both entirely legal! That's exactly what I'm saying 95% of DMs do! So I've had DMs exactly like you're describing yourself to be!As for &quot;no-one has said they will disallow custom backgrounds&quot;, I have read a few here people saying they'll disallow them, and more elsewhere, though I admit I wonder how much that's honest and how much that's macho posturing, but they're not the main concern for me. The main concern for me is people still coming to the game, who aren't going to have any idea about custom backgrounds. Everyone playing now uses custom backgrounds - they have to! They don't have a choice! But people coming to the game new - players won't even know they were ever a thing unless they get into reading some pretty rarely-discussed stuff online, and DMs won't have any reason to believe custom backgrounds should be allowed, let alone that they were completely the norm.I'm not personally afraid my character won't be allowed a custom background - but I am concerned that it's going to be an issue for D&amp;D increasingly over the next few years as people keep coming to the game and not being taught that custom backgrounds are the norm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9442629, member: 18"] This is quite funny because you're saying "Omg ur so wrong" and literally all your examples support my point! You're not breaking rules at all - you're doing exactly what I said DMs usually do - using reflavouring and Custom Lineage, neither of which break the rules or swap anything out - they're both entirely legal! That's exactly what I'm saying 95% of DMs do! So I've had DMs exactly like you're describing yourself to be! As for "no-one has said they will disallow custom backgrounds", I have read a few here people saying they'll disallow them, and more elsewhere, though I admit I wonder how much that's honest and how much that's macho posturing, but they're not the main concern for me. The main concern for me is people still coming to the game, who aren't going to have any idea about custom backgrounds. Everyone playing now uses custom backgrounds - they have to! They don't have a choice! But people coming to the game new - players won't even know they were ever a thing unless they get into reading some pretty rarely-discussed stuff online, and DMs won't have any reason to believe custom backgrounds should be allowed, let alone that they were completely the norm. I'm not personally afraid my character won't be allowed a custom background - but I am concerned that it's going to be an issue for D&D increasingly over the next few years as people keep coming to the game and not being taught that custom backgrounds are the norm. [/QUOTE]

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