Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Yes, but you miss my point. You said that the background let you be a 2014 human which is false. A background that isn't race specific can't represent any single race, so even if what the background gives you is the same as what being a 2014 human gives you, it still doesn't represent humans.I assume you read the original Playtest UA2022-CharacterOrigins?
The Playtest background grants the items that I listed.
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Background:
Abilities: +1 to three scores [or +2 to one score and +1 to an other]
Skill Proficiencies: any two
Languages: Common and any two [from background and species]
Feat: choice of any feat
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Every character of any species gains this background and its items during the character creation process.
In addition to the background feat, the Human species gains a feat that it qualifies for.
There are no Human-only feats in the Playtest. If there would be, it might be better to think of them as the local feats of a specific Human-majority city and its region: such as Neverwinter, Water Deep, and Baldurs Gate, or a less urban region, such as Icewind Dales. Obviously local feats can stereotype a local culture, so sensitivity is necessary, with all abilities prominent, especially Intelligence, and each region having a reasonable share of criminality. Sensitivity is especially necessary if drawing "inspiration" from reallife stereotypes.
Thus a person of any Humanoid species who grows up in a Human-majority city, can take any feats of that city.
Only that combination of traits which is human specific can represent humans. That's the issue. It's not that we can't copy the abilities with the background. It's that we want that particular combination of traits to be human only, since that's how it's been for a very long time. The new traits don't cut it. Having a background that anyone can take doesn't cut it.