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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9219957" data-attributes="member: 59816">I... I don't think you and I are talking about the same thing? Your video is talking about why Gygax didn't want PCs to be Aristocrats nor Peasants. That's only widely tangentally related to a discussion of what you get mechanically from choosing a background. Are you objecting to backgrounds as a THING? Because that's definitely not what we've been talking about, though I'd be happy to discus it on its own (with some context). On the subject that I was talking about: If it's for some reason important for a player to be one of the 12 or whatever "official" backgrounds for ease-of-terminology, the problem is STILL solved by picking one of those backgrounds (in name) and then changing LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU LIKE about it. Don't like the feat? Take a different one. Don't like the ASI's? Take a different one. THOSE ARE THE RULES. The backgrounds they're using cover MOST archetypes. Your version would likely only be a variant on a theme, anyhow.</blockquote>