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Better Backgrounds

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Loot and Roll, Lorenzo Cortesi

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Expanded and Enhanced Background Options

Are the new 2024 Player's Handbook backgrounds feeling too limited and restrictive for your character-building creativity?

"Better Backgrounds" is ideal for players who find the PHB 2024 backgrounds too restrictive or

want to play the 2014 edition with Origin Feats (all included in this book) and the new character creation system.

The background system in the PHB 2024 is too strict, forcing players who want to avoid suboptimal feat and ability score combinations into backgrounds that might not align with their character's vision.

Better Backgrounds fixes this by offering a more flexible and customizable approach, ensuring you can create characters that are both thematically fitting and mechanically sound.

Flexible Ability Scores: Each background specifies three ability scores. Allocate at least +1 to one of these, while the remaining +2 (or +1 and +1) can be freely assigned to any other scores.

Choice of Feats: Select one Origin Feat from two options provided for each background

Customizable Skill Proficiencies: Gain proficiency in one skill and choose an additional skill from a list of three options

Tool Proficiency: Gain proficiency with a specific tool or select one from the Artisan’s Tools category, enhancing your character's utility.

More Background Choices: Explore 26 distinct backgrounds, expanding beyond the original 16, for a richer and more personalized character creation experience.

Il manuale è disponibile anche in italiano, nel download troverete sia la versione in inglese che in italiano

**All illustrations are made with AI tools and then edited and refined by Simone Martina**

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Jeremy F October 09, 2024 6:04 pm UTC

This seems like an interesting idea. I was gonna check it out, but I see it uses AI-generated art and I have no desire to support those kinds of products.

Jarie S September 20, 2024 12:36 am UTC

The 5.2 SDR is not released until February 2025, so I doubt it is "cool" to just copy/paste the newly-released content, especially for merely minor modifications. (Not that I expect anyone cares about the legal side, I barely do. But I'm being nitpicky and gonna point out the obvious.)

Looking at the Acolyte, it looks like this is merely copy/paste and then adding a few minor details to call it different. (Direct complaint: Lucky on Acolyte doesn't even make sense. Lucky does not fit a "it's their god's blessing" excuse)

If any new backgrounds are included, that'd be fine but they should be a separate document.

Regardless, that's setting aside that a Background can always be customized. Instead of paying for a minor modification, just ask your DM, because that's in their power to allow/deny (and you'd need to ask them anyway to use this homebrew).

If this felt like a serious attempt to add something, whether real new options or something innovative,...See more

Lorenzo C September 20, 2024 7:38 am UTC

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Hi Jarie,

Aside from the background names and ability scores, I didn’t copy/paste the content. My goal was to create more flexible backgrounds with additional choices (e.g., 2 feats, 4 skills, and less rigid ability score allocations).

While I agree that backgrounds are easily customizable, I know some tables prefer homebrew content to be fully prepared. That’s why I made these backgrounds for my own group^^

On the DMsGuild, we don’t need to wait for the SRD, and we’re allowed to use copyrighted material from WotC (avoiding copying big parts of official books ofc)

If you check out my past content, you’ll see that it’s all original work, not just minor modifications of existing material.

Revel T September 22, 2024 7:56 am UTC

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