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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 8769746" data-attributes="member: 55705">I've made more characters than I can count in 5e and I've always used the custom background option. Making that the default really feels, IMO, like the developers catching up with how the game is played, much like the floating ability score modifiers. The people that I play with usually swap skills out on the backgrounds, so the idea that people have been actually using them straight out of the book is pretty surprising to me. If they want people to understand that picking feats and skills is the default, they really should just put that text up front as part of the process and list pre-mades explicitly as examples as an afterthought. In the 5e PHB, the custom option is presented as a little side thing that apparently many missed. Just make that the main text and the pre-mades as a sort of side-bar.</blockquote>