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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7536528" data-attributes="member: 7006">I don't know how much "stuff" you get in the Ravnica guild backgrounds, but the reason why making dragonmarks a sub-race option works well is because it 1) automatically denotes which race has each specific dragonmark (whereas a background requires you to write in "Only allowed to be select by X race", which is not something backgrounds typically do), and 2) the amount of magic and features a dragonmark gives to a character is more equivalent to what you receive as a race/sub-race, rather than a background.  Normal backgrounds only give you two skills, two tools or languages, and a roleplay feature.  Not nearly enough magical power that dragonmarks bestow.That's not to say that once Jeremy and the rules team get ahold of the Eberron rules made for Wayfinders they might not switch dragonmarks off of sub-races and make them something else... but at least in terms of current balance, the marks work well for what they need to do.</blockquote>