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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9252785" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>The few things I'm most curious about will be how they decide to present Backgrounds, and what the mechanical format will be for members of mixed species.</p><p></p><p>For the Backgrounds they can present them several ways-- the current 5E14 way of giving us a chapter of pre-made Backgrounds and then additional rules to create our own... the UA way of making the create-your-own be the default method and then give a couple examples of pre-made ones... or perhaps a new version that highlights both sides, or even changing up how Backgrounds are made and presented altogether.</p><p></p><p>And for the mixed species... the last time it was ever brought up they said that every species could breed with every other and you could create your own in whatever pairing you wanted-- with the game mechanics being you just choose one of the species or the other. As that has received a lot of pushback over the past year about that... there's still a possibility of that being changed. Either Half-Elf and Half-Orc remain as their own distinct entries along with all the other species, or Mixed Ancestry becomes its own entry in the species section and allows you to combine two species together either narratively and/or mechanically, or mixed ancestry gets removed as a default option altogether (and there's only a sidebar that says if you really want to keep it you can use the rules for 5E14 as needed but that's with DM permission.)</p><p></p><p>I have no idea which ways these two things will go, but I'll but curious to see what happens regardless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9252785, member: 7006"] The few things I'm most curious about will be how they decide to present Backgrounds, and what the mechanical format will be for members of mixed species. For the Backgrounds they can present them several ways-- the current 5E14 way of giving us a chapter of pre-made Backgrounds and then additional rules to create our own... the UA way of making the create-your-own be the default method and then give a couple examples of pre-made ones... or perhaps a new version that highlights both sides, or even changing up how Backgrounds are made and presented altogether. And for the mixed species... the last time it was ever brought up they said that every species could breed with every other and you could create your own in whatever pairing you wanted-- with the game mechanics being you just choose one of the species or the other. As that has received a lot of pushback over the past year about that... there's still a possibility of that being changed. Either Half-Elf and Half-Orc remain as their own distinct entries along with all the other species, or Mixed Ancestry becomes its own entry in the species section and allows you to combine two species together either narratively and/or mechanically, or mixed ancestry gets removed as a default option altogether (and there's only a sidebar that says if you really want to keep it you can use the rules for 5E14 as needed but that's with DM permission.) I have no idea which ways these two things will go, but I'll but curious to see what happens regardless. [/QUOTE]
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