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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9410425" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>"I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king". And your characters must have lead some pretty boring lives before adventuring if they fit 100% into any one background based on the sixteen.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Acolyte</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Artisan</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Charlatan</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Criminal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entertainer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Farmer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Guard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Guide</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hermit</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Merchant</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Noble</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sailor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Solider</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wayfarer</li> </ul><p>For example the second son of a noble family (the first is the heir, the second goes to the military, the third the church), had their army defeated, and is now trying to put their life back together as their family was executed has been a noble (clearly), a soldier (went off to war), and is now probably a wayfarer - and that assuming that they went off to war using sword not spell. Which do they use as their background? <em>Whichever they consider most relevant.</em> Or let's take a monk whose monastery has been dissolved and is now looking for their place in the world. Are they an acolyte? Possibly - but they may have been the entertainer within the monastery, possibly someone without a vocation and thus a charlatan, an artisan (you don't think that they spend all day on their knees?), and more. I'm not particularly trying here.</p><p></p><p>And this is, to me, working as intended. It's encouraging people to think about their backgrounds rather than just have half a line, and that gives them narrative hooks about their character.</p><p></p><p>My main worry is how imbalanced the first level feats are. Given that literally 50% of backgrounds will match your primary stat there will be a lot of options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 9410425, member: 87792"] "I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king". And your characters must have lead some pretty boring lives before adventuring if they fit 100% into any one background based on the sixteen. [LIST] [*]Acolyte [*]Artisan [*]Charlatan [*]Criminal [*]Entertainer [*]Farmer [*]Guard [*]Guide [*]Hermit [*]Merchant [*]Noble [*]Sage [*]Sailor [*]Solider [*]Wayfarer [/LIST] For example the second son of a noble family (the first is the heir, the second goes to the military, the third the church), had their army defeated, and is now trying to put their life back together as their family was executed has been a noble (clearly), a soldier (went off to war), and is now probably a wayfarer - and that assuming that they went off to war using sword not spell. Which do they use as their background? [I]Whichever they consider most relevant.[/I] Or let's take a monk whose monastery has been dissolved and is now looking for their place in the world. Are they an acolyte? Possibly - but they may have been the entertainer within the monastery, possibly someone without a vocation and thus a charlatan, an artisan (you don't think that they spend all day on their knees?), and more. I'm not particularly trying here. And this is, to me, working as intended. It's encouraging people to think about their backgrounds rather than just have half a line, and that gives them narrative hooks about their character. My main worry is how imbalanced the first level feats are. Given that literally 50% of backgrounds will match your primary stat there will be a lot of options. [/QUOTE]
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