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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9331712" data-attributes="member: 29398">And thus is well-written.  If they were all this way this discussion need never have happened.And that's a bridge too far.  How would I, a random commoner in British Columbia, have any clue that the guy who just walked in is a folk hero back in France and because of this I have to give him shelter?  (it does say "will" give shelter, not "may" or "might"; I have to do it)Correct.  And the farther afield you go from that village, the farther you have also left that background behind.  You're a folk hero in your home village and the surrounding area and probably always will be - you've got free beer for life in the local pub - but what you did in your home village shouldn't make any difference to anything when you're in another village half a world away.And this is where the RAW wording of some of these backgrounds really gets it wrong.  Whether it's wrong in the name of brevity, or giving players an advantage, or whatever, it's still wrong; and it puts the DM in a bad place when she tries to impose a bit of common sense on things.I say some of them are objectively bad as written, and the information I'm using to reach that conclusion is the actual poor wording of the rules.Here Oofta and I probably diverge, in that I've no issue with mother-may-I in situations like this.  I'd far rather a player ask "Do I think Jocasta's background will help here?" than have the player just assume it will help and be disappointed when it doesn't.</blockquote>

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