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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9331981" data-attributes="member: 56488">While I think the rest of the post is good, this is where it gets a bit weird for me in how the background works - and while someone (possibly yourself, sorry losing track of them all) mention other backgrounds may stop you coming across as a commoner anymore, I'm not sure all do, so one specific background allows people to see you as a commoner, when other characters who are commoners won't be seen as a commoner.On same token, even if they are a human, and go to an all other race town with other customs etc, they will still be identified as a commoner, even if share no cultural norms with the town they are visiting - maybe they are stoop shouldered, wear somewhat ratty clothing, have callouses on hand etc which identifies as commoner in their local area, but they are going to some place where commoners where bright clothing, as dull clothing saved for the elite, and the whole town is based on penmanship or something, and the commonfolk all have soft hands, vs the nobles going hunting etc have callouses etc - the base assumption under the background seems to be that all societies are similar enough that a commoner in one society is similar to a commoner in another, and it feels like that constrains the fiction somewhat.Maybe I'm just a bit burnt on this, as for some reason all this discussion around backgrounds and what can / can't work reminds me of Wizard's First Rule, where I had to stop reading the book and never come back once the main protagonist who seemed a stubborn idiot to me, comes across a town and gets really angry with the people there, gives into his rage and punches one of the townspeople there, and it turns out the town really respects people who punch each other, and so he is welcomed with open arms...  that really broke my suspension of belief, and I couldn't go back to the book.Now plenty of others do like the book, and likely see no issue with this, but I can see how in some instances it does feel like it would break the flow more than I'd like to allow a background feature to work.</blockquote>

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