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Message: <blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7294920" data-attributes="member: 6777696">The "use a feature from another background" part of the rule can be a little goofy, because, obviously, some features adapt better than others. That being said, I think the reason for this is that designing an appropriate feature is something that a player could easily botch, even with the best of intentions. On the other hand, as long as the player is sticking within the features provided, you know that nobody is giving themselves "Monster Hunter. Advantage on all attacks against monsters" as a background feature.Background plundering can lead to some silly results, but even the most shameless combination of skills and features just isn't going to be that mechanically unbalancing. If a player wants to ignore the spirit of the Background system and just assemble points on a character sheet with no thought to how those might arise from an actual background and might impact how the character is role-played — that player is just shooting themselves in the foot, by giving themselves an inconsistent character that's hard to role-play.I don't check character sheets in my home game unless I'm asked, because I know the people I'm playing with and I trust them to play in a way that fits our table. I generally look at character sheets when playing with strangers, and if a player showed me a sheet with a gibberish custom background, I would probably ask them some questions to try and tease out something a little more coherent.</blockquote>

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