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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3756224" data-attributes="member: 48965">Re: feats as background.Not sure I exactly agree with this sentiment.  While I understand the philosophy...it also makes me wonder isn't the player suppose to come up with the background for a feat.  Let me explain what I mean...If I have a wizard who has martial weapon proficiency that does tell me something about my character(if I want it to) and is open enough that different players can come up with different character reasons for possesing this particular feat.  Perhaps my father was a warrior who favored this particular weapon and trained me from a young age, or at some point in my life I was forced to use the weapon to survive and realized I had a natural aptitude with it.  Now I have nothing against the type of feats like fiendish heritage for sorcerers or the Dragonmarks from Eberron...but they are much more limiting as far as PC background is concerned.  It ties you to a specific world concept and while it's not a bad idea, I'm not sure I would want all feats to be that way.I guess I feel like this is a step further in the direction of stricter definition of character but I feel like if WotC isn't careful with this philosophy it could go the route of being more hampering to a player creating a specific concept. Guess we'll have to wait and see. Everything else in the blog, if it means what I think it means, seems like really good ideas.</blockquote>