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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8222038" data-attributes="member: 6988941">So a week ago or so Colby of the &quot;D&amp;D Optimized&quot; Youtube channel, which liked to use custom lineage &quot;elves&quot; with Elven Accuracy in a lot of builds and got tired of having to throw up caveats about asking your DM because there was no official ruling asked his viewers to (gently) mass pester Jeremy Crawford to this effect:[MEDIA=twitter]1367309850707849216[/MEDIA]It's just a tweet; run it as you like at your table. Personally I agree in as much as I think it was cheap and power gamey using custom lineage but then nominally calling yourself an X for the sake of qualifying for a feat, and I also think some of the racial feats are about being the elfiest elf that ever elfed, or what have you, and it was weird to have offbrand &quot;honorary members&quot; of X race get it sooner then proper ones. But I also see a missed opportunity in as much as I feel like some of the racial feats might make more sense as things you start the game with. Also I feel like the racial feats tend to be more flavorful and lend themselves to replacing racial features and the whole premise of custom lineage is to use a feat to build your own racelike thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8222038, member: 6988941"] So a week ago or so Colby of the "D&D Optimized" Youtube channel, which liked to use custom lineage "elves" with Elven Accuracy in a lot of builds and got tired of having to throw up caveats about asking your DM because there was no official ruling asked his viewers to (gently) mass pester Jeremy Crawford to this effect: [MEDIA=twitter]1367309850707849216[/MEDIA] It's just a tweet; run it as you like at your table. Personally I agree in as much as I think it was cheap and power gamey using custom lineage but then nominally calling yourself an X for the sake of qualifying for a feat, and I also think some of the racial feats are about being the elfiest elf that ever elfed, or what have you, and it was weird to have offbrand "honorary members" of X race get it sooner then proper ones. But I also see a missed opportunity in as much as I feel like some of the racial feats might make more sense as things you start the game with. Also I feel like the racial feats tend to be more flavorful and lend themselves to replacing racial features and the whole premise of custom lineage is to use a feat to build your own racelike thing. [/QUOTE]

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