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Message: <blockquote data-quote="edosan" data-source="post: 8739243" data-attributes="member: 7032094">Yeah, Inspiration was always a great concept poorly executed. I got that they cribbed it from Savage Worlds and other games to give a mechanical advantage for role playing your character suboptimally but in practice DMs forget to give it out and players forget to use it. I’d love to see it fixed.They feel so random…”okay, you’re a teifling, but sorta good, plus you can be a cat or a crane or something!” I honestly don’t get what they’re going for here.Yes, I want my races to feel different as well. Sometimes I think they’re going a bit too far into the “all the aliens are humans with different foreheads” of Star Trek sometimes. It feels like they’re almost trying to make backgrounds too impactful at the expense of lineage.I think they’re a good way to get people thinking about their characters and it adds a different dimension but I’d rather see “CULTIST: you were part of a close-knit religious group, maybe it was secret, maybe it wasn’t. Are you still in it, or did you quit? You decide!” then you go back to the formula to pick your languages and tool proficiencies and stuff. Heck, give me fifty like that and I’d love it.</blockquote>