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<blockquote data-quote="michaeljpastor" data-source="post: 9480463" data-attributes="member: 81243">Exactly.&nbsp; Backgrounds are woven not picked.&nbsp; They just traded bioessentialism for classessentialism.Other companies are approaching species the same way, atomizing it to its basic components. Atomizing the Background elements promotes the narrative,&nbsp; and describing why they are a part of your pre-history is easy when you put it in bite-sized morsels.You have Feat D, why? (I was born under a blue moon)You have a skill in this and a skill in that, why?&nbsp; (My dad did this and I taught myself that)You know how to use these kinds of tools, why?&nbsp; (Gramma taught me)Then why do you own this toolset?? (I 'found' it.)SlyFlourish, your video on 2024 character creation and your advice to just use the bumped up standard array was spot on - unless you have an interesting reason why, which is how D&amp;D is supposed to work.For the PHB Backgrounds, it doesn't help that there are so few Origin Feats in the PHB, but it's obviously going to be expanded via the settings books, but 10 is a decent start if you're not bound to a precious few rational options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="michaeljpastor, post: 9480463, member: 81243"] Exactly. Backgrounds are [I]woven[/I] not [I]picked.[/I] They just traded bioessentialism for classessentialism. Other companies are approaching species the same way, atomizing it to its basic components. Atomizing the Background elements promotes the narrative, and describing [I]why[/I] they are a part of your pre-history is easy when you put it in bite-sized morsels. You have Feat D, why? (I was born under a blue moon) You have a skill in [I]this [/I]and a skill in [I]that[/I], why? (My dad did [I]this [/I]and I taught myself [I]that[/I]) You know how to use these kinds of tools, why? (Gramma taught me) Then why do you own this toolset?? (I 'found' it.) SlyFlourish, your video on 2024 character creation and your advice to just use the bumped up standard array was spot on - unless you have an interesting reason why, which is how D&D is supposed to work. For the PHB Backgrounds, it doesn't help that there are so few Origin Feats in the PHB, but it's obviously going to be expanded via the settings books, but 10 is a decent start if you're not bound to a precious few rational options. [/QUOTE]

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