Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9085030" data-attributes="member: 22779">That's kinda missing the point of what I said though.Species traits come from the racial write-up.  So our Dragon/Dwarf uses Dragonborn traits of breath weapon and energy resistance.Then, you take a background that gives you Tool Use for, say, Mason Tools.  ((Note, our hypothetical Mixed Ancestry background was just that hypothetical)).  Then you take a class which grants your weapon proficiencies in Martial Weapons and poof, the only trait you are missing from either Dragonborn or Dwarf is Stonecunning.  Which, frankly, a mixed heritage species write-up might not actually have anyway - after all, half-elves don't get elven weapon proficiencies.  And, frankly, expertise on a single skill check is hardly the defining trait of a dwarf.Sure, if you're Dwarfborn PC is a wizard, he won't have proficiency in axe.  Then again, he's a wizard.  He's never going to use that axe anyway, so, who cares?The point being, your character's features are not solely determined by species.  It doesn't exist in a vacuum.  I just created a Dwarfborn character using the existing rules without any difficulty at all.  Is it really that hard to do this with nearly any combination of two races?</blockquote>