D&D 5E A First Look at Tasha’s Lineage System In AL Player’s Guide - Customizing Your Origin In D&D

The new player’s guide for the D&D Adventurers League has been released. Appendix 1 includes the new info from Tasha’s Cauldron on customizing your origin. It‘s a one-page appendix.

The D&D Adventurers League now uses this variant system from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything since it allows for a greater degree of customization. For ease of reference, the relevant information is included as an appendix to this document and doesn’t count against the PH + 1 rule.

You can do any of the following (obviously the full document has more detail):

1. Move your race ability score increases wherever your want to. “...take any ability score increase you gain in your race or subrace and apply it to an ability score of your choice.”​

2. Replace each language from your race with any language from a set list.​

3. Swap each proficiency for another of the same type.​

4. Alter behaviour/personality race-based descriptions.​

Its not clear if that’s the whole Lineage system or just part of it. You can download the player’s guide here.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Well, carrying capacity and grappling are adjusted based on size in 5E. Not that grappling rules are comprehensive but you can't grapple anything more than 1 size larger.

Also don't discount magical strength. I mean, who knows what's in those keebler cookies that gnomes* are always cooking up.

*Those are definitely not elves in the old keebler commercials.

Yep, and also, small and tiny creatures have disadvantage with heavy weapons. Though an orc may have the same strength as a kobold, the orc still gets more strength-based benefits for being large.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

On a more serious note, that's why I only use point buy and standard array. I don't think any part of character generation should be random. Why shouldn't the players be able to pick the character they want to be?

As long as they don't want to have a score lower than 16 in their main stat, right?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

As long as they don't want to have a score lower than 16 in their main stat, right?

That's exactly why I object to racial ability score bonuses. Some will want to be a Firbolg Archfey Warlock, but not be limited by their racial ability scores.

 

[Oofta]

Carrying capacity isn't adjusted for small size though (tiny and below, large and above).

Could have sworn small creatures were limited as well ... but you're right. Starts at tiny. Not that many people pay attention to weight anyway.

 

[billd91]

That's exactly why I object to racial ability score bonuses. Some will want to be a Firbolg Archfey Warlock, but not be limited by their racial ability scores.

I'm looking at the Firbolg stats and I don't see anything preventing them from being an archfey warlock.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I'm looking at the Firbolg stats and I don't see anything preventing them from being an archfey warlock.

Warlocks are dependent on high Charisma.

 

[billd91]

Which is all well and good until you get frustrated that you're not playing your character as you envisioned playing it.

As I said, I'm discovering them - so how exactly is my vision of playing them going to be out of sync with what I discover?

 

[billd91]

Warlocks are dependent on high Charisma.

Just because I'm on a longer path to max it out doesn't mean that I can't have a high charisma in my firbolg character.

 

[cbwjm]

This is why Rolling sucks as ability generating method.

You roll abilities, then you think what race can salvage/munchkin this set of rolls

Not just rolling, I do this with point buy. Standard human is one of my favourite races because of the +1s across the board.

 

[ChaosOS]

Not every see D&D as a wish-fulfillment exercise, though. How would you explain your point so someone who has different underlying assumptions?

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I'd say "For many people, D&D is more about the roleplaying than the game. For them, character choices are about pursuing a fantasy that fits an aesthetic rather than power-level ideal. The raging halfling barbarian with a Napolean complex, clawfoot mount, and incredible strength but small size is a fantasy that is enabled by this. The dwarven runemage who's not going to win any bench press competitions but is a brilliant caster is another fantasy brought to life with these new rules. You may not play this way, but that's what variant rules are for - enabling people with different style of play"