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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9129204" data-attributes="member: 7034710">your character's 'background' isn't their culture though, it's closer to a profession, you keep trying to put culture into it but that's not what purpose it serves.my example was meant to explicitly give the trait to half-elves, it isn't something either of the original parent species were meant to commonly achieve but represents the half-elves being something unique between them.i think that expertise needs to be much more common, it's only considered so powerful because it's so rare and the glass ceiling of bounded accuracy meaning for everyone else there's only a restricted set of outcomes for rolls, but if it were more common it would create a set of target DCs for actual experts.you can't just explain everything away by saying 'if it's in their culture', half-elves don't come from species that have any culture to deal with outliving generations humans don't have to deal with it and neither do elves, but half-elves do and they don't get guidance on how to deal with it, they are both and they are neither, they are included but they are other, this disconnect is exactly why they form their own communities because staying with either humans or elves inherently others them due to factors of their fundamental biology, and even if they do live in communites of other half-elves they can't deny that they ultimately did decend from these two other species who have totally different experiences.but the fundamental reasons for the initial disconnect apply to all half-elves equally, then how that goes on to affect their personality is a matter of BTIFi'm not talking about multispecies rules though am i.</blockquote>

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