I’ll have much more to say about backgrounds and the way they’re applied within the 2024 guidelines of Dungeons & Dragons, however that’s going to attend a little bit bit. Within the meantime, once I kind out how I take into consideration issues, I typically put the issues I’m considering in a spreadsheet. It’s what I do for my day job, and it’s how my mind likes to digest interrelated ideas. Due to that, I made a spreadsheet exhibiting what backgrounds work finest with what lessons in D&D 2024, right here:
The logic is {that a} class is a full match for any class for which it offers potential skill bonuses that match the category’ major skill rating. For many lessons, that’s only one skill rating, however for Monks, Paladins, and Rangers, meaning for a background to be a full match, it has to doubtlessly present bonuses to each of the prerequisite scores.
This doesn’t imply you may’t take a background that doesn’t present bonuses, simply that introduces the outdated difficulty of “if I make an elf paladin, I’ll have worse stats than a human paladin that places their bonuses in Power and Charisma.”
Along with making a desk for the Class/Background Matches, I additionally needed to see what weapon qualities have been assigned to what weapon, and it occurred to me that it will be good to have the ability to kind by high quality to see what weapons existed that supplied it.
I’ll additionally say that a part of my logic for that is that I need to tinker with a duplicate to see what it will appear to be if I gave weapons the weapon qualities I believe are extra logical for them, relatively than the qualities that reinforce their place as a part of the sport guidelines:
