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No Campaign Character Backgrounds?

One thing I'm kind of surprised at is that the optional character backgrounds listed in campaign books, like the Haunted one in Curse of Strahd, and the archeologist in Tomb of Annihilation, aren't added options in the charactermancer. Will there be an update later on to make them options in the charactermancer, or will we have to input them manually?
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Loren the GM
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Those modules were built before the charactermancer existed, so they do not support it. Devs have mentioned they’d like to add support for older modules but have never given a timeframe when they might actually get to that.
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On the other hand,Tyranny of Dragons is recently released, and as far as I can see, the campaign backgrounds aren't available in the charactermancer.
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Loren the GM
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There aren't any full backgrounds in ToD, only background features and bonds. Newer releases like GoS, DiA, and AI have included new full backgrounds for the Charactermancer, but don't always update already existing backgrounds to add new information - you would have to pull that from the compendium text.
Even still, there should be updates to the old campaigns to be able to add campaign backgrounds to character sheets without doing it manually.
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Loren the GM
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I'd love for that to happen. As I mentioned before, Devs have mentioned they’d like to add support for older modules but have never given a timeframe when they might actually get to that.