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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6290047" data-attributes="member: 2518">So you do see the background as just another choice for optimization?I ask you this, if someone wants to make a &quot;peasant hero&quot; type character he obviously takes farmer as background. Do you ensure that the farmer background is now balanced with all the other backgrounds? Even when the player did not take the background because of optimization reasons?And how much much freedom do you allow your players in your campaign? What when the sailor characters in the naval campaign say they have enough of ships and decide to go inland? DO you rebalance backgrounds on the fly?I used this specifically to show the conflict between versimilitude/RP potential and balance. Sure, different people believe different middle grounds, but so far in this discussions many of the pro balance arguments did not acknowledge that balance has a tradeoff at all.Where would farmer and craftsmen (90% of the population) fall into this grid? Or are only backgrounds &quot; relevant accross most D&amp;D situations&quot; allowed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6290047, member: 2518"] So you do see the background as just another choice for optimization? I ask you this, if someone wants to make a "peasant hero" type character he obviously takes farmer as background. Do you ensure that the farmer background is now balanced with all the other backgrounds? Even when the player did not take the background because of optimization reasons? And how much much freedom do you allow your players in your campaign? What when the sailor characters in the naval campaign say they have enough of ships and decide to go inland? DO you rebalance backgrounds on the fly? I used this specifically to show the conflict between versimilitude/RP potential and balance. Sure, different people believe different middle grounds, but so far in this discussions many of the pro balance arguments did not acknowledge that balance has a tradeoff at all. Where would farmer and craftsmen (90% of the population) fall into this grid? Or are only backgrounds " relevant accross most D&D situations" allowed? [/QUOTE]

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