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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5712408" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, PHB2 states flat out that you can use ANY background that makes sense as a reason to get a bonus or even auto-success in something that would logically follow from it. I agree, MANY backgrounds don't really suggest much, though if you flesh them out some they certainly could (IE 'Raised on the Streets' gives a bonus to Streetwise, but it could certainly also justify automatically knowing a good bit of information on your home turf, you just have to flesh out the character enough to know specifically where that is).Sure, but those are setting-specific rules, and thus technically are not available to just any PC. I don't allow them in my homebrew setting for instance. Actually I MIGHT allow one if it really matched well with a specific element in my campaign world, but in general I've created similar material that is not stronger than the defaults for that, so it isn't an issue). I agree those were not well conceived backgrounds though, mechanically speaking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5712408, member: 82106"] Well, PHB2 states flat out that you can use ANY background that makes sense as a reason to get a bonus or even auto-success in something that would logically follow from it. I agree, MANY backgrounds don't really suggest much, though if you flesh them out some they certainly could (IE 'Raised on the Streets' gives a bonus to Streetwise, but it could certainly also justify automatically knowing a good bit of information on your home turf, you just have to flesh out the character enough to know specifically where that is). Sure, but those are setting-specific rules, and thus technically are not available to just any PC. I don't allow them in my homebrew setting for instance. Actually I MIGHT allow one if it really matched well with a specific element in my campaign world, but in general I've created similar material that is not stronger than the defaults for that, so it isn't an issue). I agree those were not well conceived backgrounds though, mechanically speaking. [/QUOTE]

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