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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9428430" data-attributes="member: 54629">OK but the original Urchin background was very much focused on the former. The description reads "You grew up on the streets alone, orphaned, and poor. You had no one to watch over you or to provide for you, so you learned to provide for yourself ..."If WotC had wanted to expand the background to be more inclusive of other types of homeless people, why did they go with this description for Wayfarer? "You grew up on the streets surrounded by similarly ill-fated castoffs, a few of them friends and a few of them rivals. You slept where you could and did odd jobs for food. At times, when the hunger became unbearable, you resorted to theft. Still, you never lost your pride and never abandoned hope. Fate is not yet finished with you."A "wayfarer" is a traveler. Someone who lives their life on the road, moving from one place to the next, never settling down anywhere. They're not necessarily homeless, and they don't live on the streets in a single community. They might sleep rough in the wilderness or they might sleep at inns or in people's barns or whatever. They may have come from a wealthy upbringing but their wanderlust got the better of them."Wayfarer" =/= "Orphaned street urchin", despite what WotC might want us to think.If anything, "Wayfarer" should have been the new name for the Outlander background. That would have made a lot more sense. Instead, they got rid of the Outlander and gave the Urchin a nonsensical new name.</blockquote>

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