One of my players wants to take a background feature instead of a feat, the other players and him are planning on doing this regularly if I allow it. Would you allow it?
A background feature? You mean the stuff like "you know somebody in town and can get cheap lodging?" I would just... give that to the party as a reward for roleplaying rather than rob them of an ASI like that.
Because backgrounds are literally supposed to be what happened to you in your life before you became an adventurer. And with only a few exceptions, most background abilities are either significantly weaker than a feat or are a feat already.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
There are other, better ones, look at the Ravnica ones but mainly Strixhaven
And those ones are fairly broken, even compared to feats instead of other background features. There's a reason they come with suggestions to only use them in their home settings when everyone is taking one of them.
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One of my players wants to take a background feature instead of a feat, the other players and him are planning on doing this regularly if I allow it. Would you allow it?
No.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
A background feature? You mean the stuff like "you know somebody in town and can get cheap lodging?" I would just... give that to the party as a reward for roleplaying rather than rob them of an ASI like that.
There are other, better ones, look at the Ravnica ones but mainly Strixhaven
why
Because backgrounds are literally supposed to be what happened to you in your life before you became an adventurer. And with only a few exceptions, most background abilities are either significantly weaker than a feat or are a feat already.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
And those ones are fairly broken, even compared to feats instead of other background features. There's a reason they come with suggestions to only use them in their home settings when everyone is taking one of them.