Tuesday, 22nd December 2020, 20:54 by Aean
Not...really? Which is why they're not? There's a reason that there's a significant difference between the difficulty of an early-game Troll (which can basically claw anything to death, regardless of its background) and, say, an early-game Octopode, or Felid (which can basically be one-shotted by any number of things). Similarly, being able to have a god is comparatively easy mode compared to a Demigod, being able to drink potions is easy mode compared to a Mummy (though that torment resistance is easy mode later on), being able to teleport/haste is easy mode compared to a Formicid, etc. n
I'd like to see more long-term impact from backgrounds, if anything, but that's not the topic of the thread.