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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9222200" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Your clam diver is going to be an enormous disruption if the gm is running a datkuin game or any similar world on account of there not being water. Swap the sahuagin for "standard" lloth worshipping drow and the same holds true for an eberron game. A guild artisan with ties to a particular dragon marked house by extension is almost certainly going to be a mess in a fr game. I have no idea what setting the coast of amn is from, but assume it almost certainly carries some cultural baggage that might also be a problem in some settings or campaigns.</p><p></p><p>Beyond that though there is a huge difference between a clam diver and any background granting status. There might be parts of the world where clam diver is a great job, but it has never been a profession that seems like a noble or some other job with standing in society at large. A clam diver is not likely to be trying to pull rank or unreasonably claim a lot of retroactive world building to gain an advantage they have no business claiming. <strong>By choosing an example that seems to lack any significant standing in the world you pretty much went out of your way to ensure that the example is not a useful one for talking about the problem.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9222200, member: 93670"] Your clam diver is going to be an enormous disruption if the gm is running a datkuin game or any similar world on account of there not being water. Swap the sahuagin for "standard" lloth worshipping drow and the same holds true for an eberron game. A guild artisan with ties to a particular dragon marked house by extension is almost certainly going to be a mess in a fr game. I have no idea what setting the coast of amn is from, but assume it almost certainly carries some cultural baggage that might also be a problem in some settings or campaigns. Beyond that though there is a huge difference between a clam diver and any background granting status. There might be parts of the world where clam diver is a great job, but it has never been a profession that seems like a noble or some other job with standing in society at large. A clam diver is not likely to be trying to pull rank or unreasonably claim a lot of retroactive world building to gain an advantage they have no business claiming. [B]By choosing an example that seems to lack any significant standing in the world you pretty much went out of your way to ensure that the example is not a useful one for talking about the problem.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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