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So, how do you incorporate backgrounds into your own game?
Space on the character sheet shouldn’t be wasted in any TTRPG.
Recruitment Drive by Diego Gisbert
That’s valuable note space.
you could use these as a template to build your own backgrounds or to edit existing ones.
And why should the poor bard suffer any more than she has to?
Chronepsis by John Tedrick
Ultimately,read the background features and create scenarios in which they may be useful.
‘They help massively, but they perhaps won’t be features you might use every session.
That being said, you shouldn’t punish your players for picking the background!
Chronepsis by John Tedrick
Meanwhile, the Entertainer can work every night and secure your party’s coins.
Let their features mean something!
If anOutlandercan find food and water, then having them makesurvival checksrenders their feature moot.
Concept Art from Keys from the Golden Vault by Anna Pavleeva
Or, outright ban the background from the game.
Bonds
As far as bonds go, a lot of the backgrounds have NPCs baked into them.
Create castles as memorable as those who inhabit them in Dungeons & Dragons.
