So I wasn't expecting the stats to be so rigid with the backgrounds - I'd planned to make a wizard who was self-taught on their farm, but alas, no stat boost for int as a farmer. Given the flexibility that Tasha's offered for choosing your stats, it is a shame that this hasn't been carried over, because it seems to limit the RP a bit. Am I the only person who didn't think it was going to be quite like this?
I agree. It feels more restrictive than it did before. It’s the same thing with the Origin Feats. The way I interpreted those were you got to choose from the list, not have them auto assigned to you. It is very disappointing.
I imagine that the DMG will have the option to unshackle ability scores. But would also be easy enough to remove the ability score aspect of Origins and allow players to assign +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1. Either way, it's no more restrictive than the days when they locked ability score bonuses to races.
You can always just choose a background from an older book. In that case, the 2024 PHB says that you simply choose the ability scores and origin feat that you want.
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So I wasn't expecting the stats to be so rigid with the backgrounds - I'd planned to make a wizard who was self-taught on their farm, but alas, no stat boost for int as a farmer. Given the flexibility that Tasha's offered for choosing your stats, it is a shame that this hasn't been carried over, because it seems to limit the RP a bit. Am I the only person who didn't think it was going to be quite like this?
I agree. It feels more restrictive than it did before. It’s the same thing with the Origin Feats. The way I interpreted those were you got to choose from the list, not have them auto assigned to you. It is very disappointing.
I imagine that the DMG will have the option to unshackle ability scores. But would also be easy enough to remove the ability score aspect of Origins and allow players to assign +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1. Either way, it's no more restrictive than the days when they locked ability score bonuses to races.
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The Background itself don't offer any flexibility unfortunately so it's up to DM.
You can always just choose a background from an older book. In that case, the 2024 PHB says that you simply choose the ability scores and origin feat that you want.