Shared Backgrounds

[Fedomer the Opined]

Will we be using the shared backgrounds rules?

[Admin]

Yes.

[Thomas the Bastard]

Are we capped at all on how high our shared backgrounds can go?

[Sigfried Le Danois]

I believe there is an in book restriction. your shared backgrounds can never exceed the anchor background in levels. So if you use domain and 3 people share and all have 5 domain then the cap is 15.

[Simon Molendinarius]

And don't worry about consistency. We all know that when two people who make 250 coins a year pool their money, they will end up with 5,000 coins at the end of the year. It's simple addition.

Joking aside, I hope that game balance is being considered here. Does a military force 10 give 400 troops all armed with magical weapons, because that would be the assumed progression when following the current chart. Since Resources 5 gives you enough cash that Kings literally come asking for loans, what can you expect at 10, let alone 15?
This system seems great for early in the game when you need a lot of power to control things but the players don't have enough XP to manage it alone. But within a year in a game with a potential 5 XP per session there is a whole lot of room for abuse.

I'm sure the STs have some ideas for the long term, but for the moment I am faced with the reality that a duo of players willing to trust each other 100% without ever building a rapport can easily outclass anything I can bring to the table, and they grow twice as fast as I do.

[Thomas the Bastard]

I read it more as "If backgrounds are pooled, everyone can share what they would get normally, but among the group". Like two people with herd 5 wouldnt get exponentially more blood, but twice what lvl 5 does tp share as they like. That sort of thing.

[Giric]

Shared backgrounds works well for linear progressions, but not so well for the other backgrounds. This is something already on the sts agenda for their meeting this month, specifically regarding resources. We can look forward to a response given careful thought sometime before next game I imagine.

[Thomas the Bastard]

If I can make a static challenge lower than 0 with shared backgrounds (like lore or ritual research), do I still need to chop?

[Giric]

Not all backgrounds can be pooled, so I imagine that removes some of those circumstances.

For where it does apply, that is interesting. I wonder what the ruling will be.

[Sigfried Le Danois]

Mentor is explicitly one of the ones that can't be pooled and I know that is one of te ones that makes rituals easier. I imagine the lab one might be unpoolable since it's a single building kind of deal but that one can go either way.

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