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<blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 8019604" data-attributes="member: 6788732"><p>I guess something I do like about pathfinder 2e is their use of ancestry/heritage. Whether the terms are good or not (personally I'm fine with them), their mechanics are what I really like. Although similar to race/subrace in 5e they have some differences that I'd quite like to port over to 5e, no half-elf or half-orc races for instance, instead these can be selected as a human heritage instead of the &quot;standard human&quot; heritages of skilled and versatile. Most of the mechanics are in the base race, ability modifiers and some basic traits, then the heritage provides another small package of abilities. This means that, for instance, a high elf, wood elf, and dark elf would all share the same ability modifiers and then their heritage would provide unique advantages for their heritage. In 5e terms that might be basically what their subrace grants but without the ability modifier so that players who want that optimisation are beholden to a specific subrace to start with a 16 in a stat.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="cbwjm, post: 8019604, member: 6788732"] I guess something I do like about pathfinder 2e is their use of ancestry/heritage. Whether the terms are good or not (personally I'm fine with them), their mechanics are what I really like. Although similar to race/subrace in 5e they have some differences that I'd quite like to port over to 5e, no half-elf or half-orc races for instance, instead these can be selected as a human heritage instead of the "standard human" heritages of skilled and versatile. Most of the mechanics are in the base race, ability modifiers and some basic traits, then the heritage provides another small package of abilities. This means that, for instance, a high elf, wood elf, and dark elf would all share the same ability modifiers and then their heritage would provide unique advantages for their heritage. In 5e terms that might be basically what their subrace grants but without the ability modifier so that players who want that optimisation are beholden to a specific subrace to start with a 16 in a stat. [/QUOTE]

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