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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7764115" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>The thing where your guild background adds spells to your spell list is a big freakin' deal. That is a radical change from backgrounds as they existed before.</p><p></p><p>I like that they're amping up the importance and thematic impact of backgrounds, and as a caster player I'd be excited to play with these, but I do feel like noncasters get shortchanged here. I think I would house rule that if you have at least one level in a class that does not grant cantrips*, you gain the ability to cast the cantrips on your background spell list. <em>(To be clear: This is my solution as a DM wanting to quickly and simply balance these backgrounds. If I had a team of professional designers at my beck and call, I'd prefer to come up with a feature for each background that supports noncasters without turning them into casters. But that's a lot more work.)</em></p><p></p><p>Also, there are some potential warlock shenanigans here. Golgari warlocks can cast <em>animate dead</em> on a short-rest cycle, without having to dump 5 levels into another class. The resulting undead are pretty weak, since you don't get the necromancer's Undead Thralls ability... but dang, can you ever make a lot of them.</p><p></p><p>[size=-2]*I consider a class to grant cantrips only if it has a class spell list with cantrips on it. Cantrips granted by subclass features don't count. So classes affected by this change would include barbarian, fighter, monk, paladin, ranger, and rogue.[/size]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7764115, member: 58197"] The thing where your guild background adds spells to your spell list is a big freakin' deal. That is a radical change from backgrounds as they existed before. I like that they're amping up the importance and thematic impact of backgrounds, and as a caster player I'd be excited to play with these, but I do feel like noncasters get shortchanged here. I think I would house rule that if you have at least one level in a class that does not grant cantrips*, you gain the ability to cast the cantrips on your background spell list. [I](To be clear: This is my solution as a DM wanting to quickly and simply balance these backgrounds. If I had a team of professional designers at my beck and call, I'd prefer to come up with a feature for each background that supports noncasters without turning them into casters. But that's a lot more work.)[/i] Also, there are some potential warlock shenanigans here. Golgari warlocks can cast [i]animate dead[/i] on a short-rest cycle, without having to dump 5 levels into another class. The resulting undead are pretty weak, since you don't get the necromancer's Undead Thralls ability... but dang, can you ever make a lot of them. [size=-2]*I consider a class to grant cantrips only if it has a class spell list with cantrips on it. Cantrips granted by subclass features don't count. So classes affected by this change would include barbarian, fighter, monk, paladin, ranger, and rogue.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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