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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6183648" data-attributes="member: 13009">This is basically two house rules in one.  The first I have seen before mentioned by others and the second is something new I think.Background points and dice, you still get 8 points to distribute with a max of 5 in any one background.  The difference is for each point you get a die step increase to add to those rolls not a +1.1pt = +1d42pt = +1d63pt = +1d84pt = +1d105pt = +1d12The other part is the higher the dice the more specialized it would be.  So right now a background could be "Temple Guard for the Priestess" and it would apply to anything the player and DM can agree on.Same goes with this system but at a d8 rating each background would have 3 focuses listed next to it that the player/dm agree on that the background would apply to most of the time.  For each die step down the number of focuses goes up by 1 and each die step up down by 1, so a d12 has only one focus.Example backgrounds for a paladin character."Temple guard for the Priestess" d10 [sense motive, religion]  = same as +4 normaly"Orphan taken in by Mama Ging" d6 [cooking, streetwise, stealth, slight of hand] = same as +2"Pilgrim of the sun" d6 [endurance, survival, history, diplomacy] = same as +2So just to be clear the player could still justify using his temple guard background for other things besides sense motive and religion checks it is just that those are assumed to be apart of it.Is this a horrible idea, I have insomnia and didn't get any sleep last night so there is that.</blockquote>

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