Any time the game called for a skill check, you would make an attribute check instead, and if the GM agreed you were doing something one of your Backgrounds gave you experience in you'd add your Background rank to your attribute rank.Ĭlick to expand.I certainly encourage players to take Expertise skills, but I see no reason to make them free. Cyclops has one, and it's Leader of the X-Men, and that's it, because that's all he's ever done or cared about. A tightly-focused hero might only have one. An omni-competent superhero like Batman would probably have three, or maybe even more (I'd give him three: World's Greatest Detective, Weird Figure of the Dark, and Millionaire Playboy). The archetypal superhero would probably have two Backgrounds: one for what they do as a superhero, and one for what they do in their secret identity. Mutants and Masterminds! This is probably the right place to put a house rule I thought about but never tested out, coming from my dissatisfaction with the way attributes and skills are priced in M&M: replacing skills with Backgrounds from the d20 fantasy game 13th Age.Ī Background is something that represents a chapter in your life, a role you play, or both.
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