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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9717485" data-attributes="member: 725">Where did they mention PHB 2024 explicitly? As far as I can find in my versions of PHB/DMG/MM 2024 in FVTT, they don't mention half-elf or half-orc at all, WotC copped out on that front. But online it was mentioned how they intended that. Choose a species as represented in PHB 2024 (mechanics) and fill in your background however you want.My character in D&D 5e 2024 has a human father and an elf mother, he takes after his mother, even though he was raised in human culture. So Elf species mechanically.What the PHB 2024 does specifically say (sidebar) is that you can use the species from the previous edition with PHB 2024, thus the half-elf and half-orc from PHB 2014 are fair game IF you really want and the DM allows it.As such, it seems WotC wants to avoid using the 'half' label as much as possible, you're either an Elf, and Orc or a Human with mixed ancestry. It seems the only 'half' anything left in the PHB/DMG/MM 2024 is the half dragon in the MM, even the half-Ogre was renamed to just Ogrillon.</blockquote>