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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9287798" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Pretty much all of the early backgrounds are based on reputation, people or what you know.  Once you're outside the PC's sphere of influence they stop making sense.  Thing is the background features are rarely useful even in a standard game and, when they are, they're basically fluff.  If the PCs need to have an audience with a noble to move the plot forward, it will happen whether or not someone has the noble background.  Free passage on a ship because you have a sailor in the group?  I don't remember a single instance in any edition, any campaign, where paying for ship passage ever came up.So rather than twist world building logic in knots, I'll just take background into consideration and find some other way to make it useful.  Occasional advantage on a check, knowledge pertinent to the background automatically gained and so on.  Besides, I don't remember the last time anyone brought up their background feature, people just don't care.  Well, except for the guy who thought he should have a criminal contact when they were halfway across the world.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>