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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9222177" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>I'm trying to understand where you are coming from with your responses to [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER]. What I think he is saying is the following. I have a character concept and the background for my PC that he was a clam diver on the coast of Amn and his brother was killed in a sahuagin raid. That got him into adventuring to get revenge. He's going to be a paladin of vengeance. Going through the list of 2014 backgrounds(since I don't have a 2024 list) I don't see a single background that is close to Clam Diver, and I can guarantee you that you won't see it in 2024, either! </p><p></p><p>That means that I have to create my own background. So I make Clam Diver and assign +2 Con, +1 Dex, because swimming and clam diving would involve both heavily, but I think Con more. For the feature I double the length of time my PC can hold his breath and since that's very niche, add in that he gets advantage to his rolls to scrounge up food when near water features. Lastly I give him athletics(for the swimming) and Perception(hard to see and need to spot quickly underwater) as the background skills.</p><p></p><p>The above is something that any DM should just grant without any moaning or groaning. As he should grant any reasonable background made by a player. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of distinct backgrounds that should be available to players in character creation, but which the designers don't have the time to make and the book doesn't have space for. There should be no difference between official and home brew here other than official takes less effort.</p><p></p><p>That leads me to what I think [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER]'s point is. The world should be reacting to that background every bit as much as soldier or hermit. If it doesn't, that really is "A DM not worth their salt."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9222177, member: 23751"] I'm trying to understand where you are coming from with your responses to [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER]. What I think he is saying is the following. I have a character concept and the background for my PC that he was a clam diver on the coast of Amn and his brother was killed in a sahuagin raid. That got him into adventuring to get revenge. He's going to be a paladin of vengeance. Going through the list of 2014 backgrounds(since I don't have a 2024 list) I don't see a single background that is close to Clam Diver, and I can guarantee you that you won't see it in 2024, either! That means that I have to create my own background. So I make Clam Diver and assign +2 Con, +1 Dex, because swimming and clam diving would involve both heavily, but I think Con more. For the feature I double the length of time my PC can hold his breath and since that's very niche, add in that he gets advantage to his rolls to scrounge up food when near water features. Lastly I give him athletics(for the swimming) and Perception(hard to see and need to spot quickly underwater) as the background skills. The above is something that any DM should just grant without any moaning or groaning. As he should grant any reasonable background made by a player. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of distinct backgrounds that should be available to players in character creation, but which the designers don't have the time to make and the book doesn't have space for. There should be no difference between official and home brew here other than official takes less effort. That leads me to what I think [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER]'s point is. The world should be reacting to that background every bit as much as soldier or hermit. If it doesn't, that really is "A DM not worth their salt." [/QUOTE]
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