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Oct 18, 2011 -- 5:21AM, lorika wrote:

I'm confused why anyone would want multiple regional backgrounds. You can only benefit mechanically from ONE background, so there's no mechanical advantage to pick multiple regional backgrounds. Roleplaying-wise you can say your characters backstory is whatever you want it to be. For example, you could say that your character was born in the East Rift, and then lived in Luruar, the Dalelands, Cormyr, and Everveska throughout their childhood. But there's no reason you need to have each one of those officially listed as a "regional background." You can just say that's what happened since it's only for roleplaying purposes anyway.

As far as paragon paths with prereqs - I would consider that to be a mechanical advantage. You can pick ONE background to benefit from mechanically which includes the background benefit and any prereqs for mechanical elements (such as paragon paths).

I agree with you, but I can see how some people could interpret it the opposite way.

It would be nice to have a ruling as to what is a "benefit" wrt character backgrounds.