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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8732453" data-attributes="member: 19857">I suspect that having that work requires a lot more coding under the hood to change that we think it should.  And that if they wanted that to be the case they would have needed to delay the release of the book until the devs could get the "backgrounds give you a feat" code to work.(In a former life I did internal software development for a few different companies and it would always shock the users when we'd give them time/cost estimates for things they'd ask for.  They'd come to us asking for something they thought was a huge major change and due to how the system had been designed it was a couple of changes to some database tables and we could start testing it immediately.  Meanwhile they'd ask for something they saw as trivial - like to have an input box moved to a different screen - and they'd get an estimate of 6 months to re-engineer things to the point where we could start to think of making that change.  A lot of times it all depends on what the core assumptions the people building the system made when they built it and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the assumptions made make updating the Background code to be able to grant Feats a difficult thing to do.)</blockquote>