Quote from: Exploderwizard;775530Hmm...  Dentist doesn't seem to be a background option for elves. Gonna have to fix that for my campaign.

I must be old because I immediately got the reference

And Jesus your sig is huge

Quote from: Will;775594(also, I really hope they don't have a fucking commoner class again)

I hope they do, so I can be a Ancient Gold Dragon Commoner!

You have a powerful and monstrous heritage! Do you use the fire in your blood to become a mighty Sorceror? Use your draconic instinct to be a great Fighter? Do you--

"Nah, I think I'll hang around town, maybe run an inn..."

(I'm just kidding, I don't have an opinion either way It just seems like a funny notion.)

RE: The whole barbarian thing. This is how I would handle it.

The whole berserker rage thing- subclass of fighter. Its a combat style based on losing your shit and hoping that you survive. Simple.

Primitive- background option. Being from a lower level of technical advancement than the majority of the campaign world.

Barbarian- a label that you get stuck with depending on other decisions you made for your character and what part of the setting you are currently in.

Being considered a barbarian is a cultural stigma that can be applied to anyone deemed an "outsider" to a particular culture. WE are enlightened and favored by the gods, THEY are barbarians whose natural place is serving as our slaves. That attitude is simple tribalism and can be applied to groups who may not even be primitive in comparison -just culturally different.

Barbarian should be a hairdo.  And a mustache.

I'm happy with the gamut of backgrounds. Including their random charts for flaws and bonds, I think it covers a lot of ground.

Not enough, though. Never enough.

I'd like to tweak Noble into diplomat, and i'd like to see an Occultist or simply Cultist background. All probably tweakable from the existing ones, however.

What would be a good example of a background that wouldn't be easily tweaked from an existing one?

Klingon!


oh, wait. 'good'

Quote from: Will;775594(also, I really hope they don't have a fucking commoner class again)

There was a prostitute class?

Quote from: jadrax;775696There was a prostitute class?

No, only in Conan d20.

Quote from: Exploderwizard;775530Hmm...  Dentist doesn't seem to be a background option for elves. Gonna have to fix that for my campaign.

No 'Camp Follower' either....

Poor Chloe...

Quote from: The Ent;775701No, only in Conan d20.

That was Temptress, but close. ;o)

Quote from: Will;775558Consideration:
Rename Barbarians Berserkers.

Add a Barbarian Background.

In Majestic Wilderlands rather than a Barbarian class, I made a Berserker class. They are holy warriors of Thor that are badass monster hunters. The general gist that they are fanatics hanging round Viking communities. When a monster pops up that terroizes the populace they rage out and hunt down the critter.

Quote from: Number1TheLarch;775689I'm happy with the gamut of backgrounds. Including their random charts for flaws and bonds, I think it covers a lot of ground.

Not enough, though. Never enough.

I'd like to tweak Noble into diplomat, and i'd like to see an Occultist or simply Cultist background. All probably tweakable from the existing ones, however.

What would be a good example of a background that wouldn't be easily tweaked from an existing one?

I would need to see the book before I would be able to give a good answer to this honestly. From how I do understand it though you can pretty much swap out skills in any combination or tools. The Acolyte background gives a really nice framework to makeup a background that needs contacts or maybe a little network type thing (a place to crash, or get a certain service for free or similar).

Quote from: Marleycat;775739I would need to see the book before I would be able to give a good answer to this honestly. From how I do understand it though you can pretty much swap out skills in any combination or tools. The Acolyte background gives a really nice framework to makeup a background that needs contacts or maybe a little network type thing (a place to crash, or get a certain service for free or similar).

My impression so far is, "Here's a bunch of common backgrounds.  It's obvious the template we used to create them, so feel free to create your own rather than us have 100 pages of them."

Yeah, backgrounds aren't really much more than 'two skills, some related tools, and social connections related to background.'

Which is cool.

What will be interesting is seeing how feats work into it, because feats seem to really extend the tweaks in a more meaty way. (Also subclasses)

It would be easy to use two backgrounds as well; taking half of the stuff from each.