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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 9262472" data-attributes="member: 40176">Why make up a new background? Plenty of the existing ones assume that you're experienced and have been in that role for some time.Criminal states in its first sentence that you're experienced and have a history of breaking the law, and portrays you as a well connected member of the criminal underworld.Folk Hero explicity gives you a heroic past.Guild Artisan specifies that you've risen to being both well-established within the mercantile world and a master of your craft.As a Hermit you've lived in seclusion long enough to have made some remarkable philosophical discovery.A Sage, like the Guild Artisan, has spent long enough in their profession to achieve mastery, this time in a particular field of scholarly study.Soldier carries with it a sufficient military rank to command the respect and deference of others, not something easily achieved without a significant career.Even the backgrounds that don't explicitly make you an adult with a job you've been in for years or even decades don't preclude such a thing. I don't think any of them come with the assumption that you're still young and inexperienced, except possibly Urchin.</blockquote>