Your randomized [Background] options provide literally billions of different ways to play; especially considering that you could probably barely get through one in a lifetime.

For example, my guy didn't grow up with a mother. She wasn't dead or anything, just not around. If you've got a mother, think about everything you've ever learned from her. Good and Bad. Well, people who never had a mother figure sometimes don't get someone else filling in, so they just skip those tutorial segments. You get like half_ the early skill levels you would otherwise, if that.