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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6275453" data-attributes="member: 1465">The problem is that background is an individual's concept. There is still a lot of misconception about what a 5e background represents, but the designers have been very clear many times: it is not about your culture but it is about your profession or role in society, or in other words they are about &quot;who are you, when you are not adventuring&quot; (or in slightly different terms &quot;who were you, before taking up adventuring&quot; - this to take into account that some groups play the game without downtime thus once you take up your class it's only adventures).Thus &quot;Barbarian&quot; or &quot;Asian&quot; are not suitable concepts for 5e backgrounds, despite the constant attempts by a lot of people to spread the misconception. Just take a look at the current backgrounds, and notice how each and every one of them simply represents &quot;what do you do for a living&quot;, not what kind of culture or society you grew up but what kind of role you had(have) within that culture or society (even if some &quot;roles&quot; are despicable or even illegal).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6275453, member: 1465"] The problem is that [I]background[/I] is an [B]individual's [/B]concept. There is still a lot of misconception about what a 5e background represents, but the designers have been [I]very[/I] clear many times: it is not about your culture but it is about your [I]profession[/I] or [I]role in society[/I], or in other words they are about "who are you, when you are not adventuring" (or in slightly different terms "who were you, before taking up adventuring" - this to take into account that some groups play the game without downtime thus once you take up your class it's only adventures). Thus "Barbarian" or "Asian" are not suitable concepts for 5e backgrounds, despite the constant attempts by a lot of people to spread the misconception. Just take a look at the current backgrounds, and notice how each and every one of them simply represents "what do you do for a living", [I]not [/I]what kind of culture or society you grew up [I]but[/I] what kind of role you had(have) within that culture or society (even if some "roles" are despicable or even illegal). [/QUOTE]

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