It is important, skill-wise, to choose background before class. Backgrounds have a specific skill set you get, and that overlaps sometimes with the class skills. So, if you are choosing your class skills first, you don't know which ones you're going to get for your background, which sometimes has you go back a couple of steps and re-choose.
If a character would gain the same proficiency from two different sources, he or she can choose a different proficiency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead.
I agree with this as well. However my current method of doing this is to leave skills unselected until I have picked my background, and then go back and select them.
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It is important, skill-wise, to choose background before class. Backgrounds have a specific skill set you get, and that overlaps sometimes with the class skills. So, if you are choosing your class skills first, you don't know which ones you're going to get for your background, which sometimes has you go back a couple of steps and re-choose.
Mechanically, this makes no difference.
However, it certainly makes more coherence to me, to choose your background first based on a structural, thematic or character sense.
I agree with this as well. However my current method of doing this is to leave skills unselected until I have picked my background, and then go back and select them.
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