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Message: <blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8571729" data-attributes="member: 10531">They're in the tradition of the Strixhaven backgrounds, which were developed as an alternative to an effort to create multiple-class subclasses.I personally think reviving the prestige class idea would work better than background-with-feat-and-feat-chain, but it's an approach.Because it's primarily a background feature, not a real feat.If you take the Knight of Solamnia background, by the background you've trained to fight as a knight. To be consistent with that, you have to have learned to use martial weapons and decent armor. So then the design choices are 1) only allow classes that can use knightly weapons and armor to take the background, or 2) include martial weapons and medium armor with the background, so that whatever class the character has, they have abilities consistent with being trained as a knight.The fact that it's officially a feat then makes it possible for a PC who started with a different background to become a Squire of Solamnia in play and thus qualify for the Knight of [Whichever] feats, while still mostly reserving the feats for people from the background.</blockquote>