D&D (2024) 5e 2024 Skills

[DEFCON 1]

(Separately, when I tried to create a custom background, it seems to not let me pick an origin feat. Am I missing something?)

I don't think you are missing anything... I don't think they've programmed the 5E24 Custom Background to give out Origin feats yet. I want to say that when I did create some characters with custom backgrounds myself, I think I ended up just adding them from and to the character sheet under the 'Feats' tab and then clicking the 'Manage Feats' button which allowed me to add any feats to the character I wanted. This would be the way I think that a person would have to expand out which Feats are selectable as potential Origin feats that aren't in the standard book.

Hopefully they will update the programming to allow Origin feats to be selected in character creation pages themselves as part of creation when you select 'custom background'... but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe when the Eberron update book is published and they have to add the Lesser Dragonmark as hopefully an Origin feat they will fix the issue.

 

[Yaarel]

I don't think you are missing anything... I don't think they've programmed the 5E24 Custom Background to give out Origin feats yet. I want to say that when I did create some characters with custom backgrounds myself, I think I ended up just adding them from and to the character sheet under the 'Feats' tab and then clicking the 'Manage Feats' button which allowed me to add any feats to the character I wanted. This would be the way I think that a person would have to expand out which Feats are selectable as potential Origin feats that aren't in the standard book.

Hopefully they will update the programming to allow Origin feats to be selected in character creation pages themselves as part of creation when you select 'custom background'... but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe when the Eberron update book is published and they have to add the Lesser Dragonmark as hopefully an Origin feat they will fix the issue.

Thanks, that was helpful.

You can add skills to the bottom of the list on DDB, but it won't put these new ones into alphabetical order (not to mention the new skills end up having to be on a scroll bar down in order for them to show up.) You cannot delete nor rename skills... which has always been my one bugaboo with the DDB character sheet. Everyone seems to have that one thing that irritates them about DDB... and being unable to customize the skill list fully has been mine.

I sympathize.

At least for now, adding a skill like 'Engineering' or 'Commerce' is good. Man, I want to see that Acrobatics gone!