
Since it looks likely that Before We Were Heroes won’t be ready before the 2024 edition, I’m thinking of adding that Feat guidance to each listed Background. Putting those on a chart with a curve using two dice can influence the commonality of the Feats. Ritual Caster makes sense to capture the one who picks up hedge magic. Then only selecting Feats from the Player’s Handbook, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything since those are a core book and the two rules expansions.Īctor reminds me of Paden Fain. We’ll include the three default Feats from the errata - Magic Initiate, Skilled, Tough. Using my most popular original Background, the Tinker, as an example. Those Feats would be selected to emphasize specific stories typically told regarding that Background. Each of those books assigns their unique Backgrounds specific Feats for flavor.Ī more flexible system would be to attach Feats on a small curve. Now, my current world attaches Feats to racial choices, but one could choose to go the path of Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and Strixhaven. Now you can have flavorful feats in your 5e game at 1st level.

With One D&D’s playtest we know there’s a chance at adding Feats for everyone at 1st level.

Similar to the Dragonlance decision to add Feats this was done to add flavor, speaking to the types of powers that people from various continents have. Kon get Artificer Initiate and the Rock Gnome’s tinker ability.In the case of the World of the Everflow these choices are Similar to the Dragonlance decision my world has an additional feat at first level. Normal people aren’t space halflings and asteroid dwarves. For Dragonlance this was because these are characters in a war. If a character takes a background from elsewhere and doesn’t get a feat from that background, the character gains one of the following feats of the player’s choice: Magic Initiate, Skilled, or Tough.”ĭragonlance will have something similar. The one that sticks out is the addition of Feats to every Background. They’re good changes and Wizards of the Coast is changing the processes that allowed the culturally insensitive material to appear first too. That’s because they need to make some changes to the Hadozee for reasons of insensitivity.
