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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirrorrorrim" data-source="post: 9029215" data-attributes="member: 7040132">After reading the article itself, I don't think it is 144 different backgrounds. I think it is 9 races and 16 backgrounds can be combined to make 144 different "character origins" Below is the relevant text.And, when you do decide to make that first character, you’ll have more choices than ever before, thanks to more than 144 options for your character’s background. Whether they started life as a soldier or a scholar will also be more important than it was in 2014. That’s because the new Player’s Handbook (2024) will offload important features like ability score improvements, first-level feats, and more from your character’s biological roots to their cultural and socioeconomic roots — similar to what was proposed as a new, optional rule in <a href="https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2020/11/16/21569738/dungeons-dragons-tashas-cauldron-of-everything-review" target="_blank">Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything</a>. “The ‘character origins’ chapter will also include guidance on alignment [and] languages,” said game design architect Jeremy Crawford. “But the focus is on species [<a href="https://www.polygon.com/23488097/dungeons-dragons-race-species-rule-change-announcement-wotc-unearthed-arcana" target="_blank">formerly called race</a>] and backgrounds. How we are framing it — and this is really building on work we did in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything — is taking those two components of the character [and] combining them to create a glimpse of who their character was before they became an adventurer.”I think they want to frame being a human noble as a different character origin than being a dwarven noble. And I'm fine with that for the PH.</blockquote>

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