D&D:O Slidin' Into My DMs #2 - Custom Lineage and Racial Feats 

I absolutely agree. For example, Orcish Fury is one of those feats that just allow for some extra power, and Orcs have lived and evolved through hardship and suffering, fighting for their lives against the will of the world. That fighting spirit should be what allows you to partake of such a feat. If you’re a human but grew amongst half-orcs, then I believe you could be able to take the feat, for you grew and trained with those that unlocked that inner power. But if some Elf was just able to take Orcish Fury? Nearly slandering the namesake? I disagree with that. Perhaps instead of racial feats, they can be considered by trained feats in a way? If you were to be born an Elf, but see the savagery of natural Orcs and wish to work down that path, you can train with half orcs or so on and unlock your inner fury, and become able to take the Orcish Fury feat. But, a half orc having this fury naturally run through their blood would be able to take it regardless of their childhoods, even if growing amongst gnomes, all it would take would be the realization of their own boiling blood. It would allow for pretty neat character growth, as well as still give bonuses to the namesakes of the feats, being the races that which birthed the feats in the first place through the will of their ancestors. (Sorry for the long reply, just kinda typed away lol)

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love that take.

@@DnDDeepDive Yeah, I don't disagree at all. In fact, I also think that was the point. However, as much as this has been talked about and the fact that Crawford and the rest of Wizards is not answering... that makes me think they've been given a gag order on anything involving questions about dnd races. Seems like a can of worms they don't want to open. That's a little bit of a bummer though as there are a lot of us out here confused and wondering about how to make a ruling on this at our tables.

Or choose CL and Flavor as Human. I was upset because my VHuman Fighter was level 6 when CL came out. So reroll for Darkvision because DM won't retcon? I think Wotc did the races a disservice with CL.

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These guys are used to it. All monsters have 200hp 😝

Agreed! Thats is a good point.

Seems fair. But what if I'm a half-elf half-dwarf!? >.>.

@@DnDDeepDive i think thats fine. Mom was an elf like galadriel, dad was a dwarf like gimli. You have access to elven and dwarven feats but none of the racial features.

ha ha - thanks! :)

ha ha!

At our table our dm allows only to custom lineage (feats-wise) to maximum of 2. So most martials are picking half-orc, half-elf to have access to elven accuracy and orcish fury. For elves, the players have to choose if they want to be drow, high elf or wood elf.

This is how our dm runs it too. Most martials though pick half-drow/high/wood elf, half-orc.

Half elf half orc is one of the most interesting parentages that I can think of though

Thanks! I assumed the darkness was the same as the darkness spell but will put it on the list of potential future topics :)

I totally agree on that

Let me know how many fighters you play before you see a caster cast disintegrate

@@ashdaniels2332 Umm, what...

@@BossTripp1 Most players dont get to 6th levels spells before the campaign get over. So you can play a fighter 3-4 times before you see a 11th level character

Why elf is elf.

Agreed!

I'd like all feats to become general, but the various racial traits to stay and get rid of custom lineage. (For a standard D&D setting, as it keeps the flavour) Nature: racial traits you are born with Nurture: ability assignment at start, feats and ASIs to let you create the individual you want. Just my 2p and how I'd like to see it go.

I agree 99%, but CL makes VH irrelevant. Just roll CL and flavor as human with darkvision because one of your grandparents was 1/16 gnome.

@@genxmonk2669 or you went through some sort of Witcher process

@@genxmonk2669 there are many ways for humans to get dark vision any way as well.

@@erikenn not innately at level 1

@@genxmonk2669 aren't there sorcerer and warlock classes that get it? Even so, you get more chances for dark vision at level 3 for many classes, gloomstalker comes to mind.

We should be! In our (kinda) defense: the four of us all work together and are together almost every day and kinda treat each other like family; we do mask up every time we leave the office to go to lunch, etc., but we've gotten admittedly pretty lax when it's just us.