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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9313042" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>From <em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</em> to <em>Planet of the Apes</em>, the s<em>tranger in a strange land </em>or <em>fish out of water </em>trope is pretty common in fiction. The protagonist(s) is somewhere they don't belong, have never been, no one knows them and they have to survive. There's also the related <em>stranger in your own home</em> trope where everything is different or nobody remembers you. I did the stranger in a strange land in a previous campaign long ago when the PCs were sent to a version of the world where the BBEG had won, in part because she had been given a vision that the PCs could stop her so she murdered them in their sleep when they were still children.</p><p></p><p>In a stranger in a strange land campaign, I simply don't see how most background features would work. The PCs may establish relationships and a reputation wherever they are, but it will take some effort and time. This may be a rare campaign setting*, but it doesn't change the question. Should background features work as written, if so how is it justified? </p><p></p><p>The reason I ask is because if you agree that the background feature would not work in a stranger in a strange land scenario, then we are just discussing under what circumstances the circumstances apply. If you think that the background feature would always work no matter what, I would call that either a supernatural ability or illogical.</p><p></p><p>*<em>I disagree a bit, I've given examples of published campaigns do it but that's not the point.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9313042, member: 6801845"] From [I]A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court[/I] to [I]Planet of the Apes[/I], the s[I]tranger in a strange land [/I]or [I]fish out of water [/I]trope is pretty common in fiction. The protagonist(s) is somewhere they don't belong, have never been, no one knows them and they have to survive. There's also the related [I]stranger in your own home[/I] trope where everything is different or nobody remembers you. I did the stranger in a strange land in a previous campaign long ago when the PCs were sent to a version of the world where the BBEG had won, in part because she had been given a vision that the PCs could stop her so she murdered them in their sleep when they were still children. In a stranger in a strange land campaign, I simply don't see how most background features would work. The PCs may establish relationships and a reputation wherever they are, but it will take some effort and time. This may be a rare campaign setting*, but it doesn't change the question. Should background features work as written, if so how is it justified? The reason I ask is because if you agree that the background feature would not work in a stranger in a strange land scenario, then we are just discussing under what circumstances the circumstances apply. If you think that the background feature would always work no matter what, I would call that either a supernatural ability or illogical. *[I]I disagree a bit, I've given examples of published campaigns do it but that's not the point.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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