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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 5889335" data-attributes="member: 6688049">That's something I wonder about too. I suppose that since a starting character only has so many features which are represented stat-wise, at some point we decide what is essential as far as choosing which parts of the PC's biography are represented by stats, and which are meaningful, but unstatted, story.  From what I've seen of 5e, that doesn't go against the system at all, unless we're playing in a campaign that doesn't use the individual feat-selection rules module. Was the character a Tiefling Orphaned Wizard-Order Necromancer Vampire at 1st level? At what level did the character achieve all these features? As comparison, I wonder at what level will a 5e character be able to gather the slots to represent all these rules-wise. Another question is, how many sourcebooks beyond the PHB were required to represent your character, and how long did it take from the initial PHB release date of that Edition in order to have these rules? Will 5e cover these quicker? If options like Werewolf and Vampire are already in the PHB, then 5e outpaces earlier editions in this regard.</blockquote>