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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinnguard" data-source="post: 9282864" data-attributes="member: 7033886">Categories aren't rules. And even if they were, there is no rule saying that you must absolutely use them in your setting. Feel free to come up with your own rules if you aren't crazy about the official rules. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />While these rules do allow the players the choice of making characters of mixed ancestry, the DM has the final say on whether or not they'll allow the players to have them. If I was a DM and I had a player who wanted to play a character of mixed ancestry just for the mechanical advantage or the uniqueness, I would ask that character to convince me by coming up with a convincing backstory of how they came to be. I would also look over their character's mixed ancestry traits to see if any of them were OP on their own or as a whole.Alternatively I could create a setting where none of the races were capable of creating mixed ancestries with one another. You are the overdeity of your setting.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Well I just failed that Perception and Investigation check. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I was going by what Level Up had for mixed heritages. Pick a heritage and then pick the heritage gift (which is essentially a first level racial feat) belonging to another heritage. If you wanted to play a Half-Elf in Level Up, you have you two ways to create one.1. Pick the Elven heritage and a Human heritage gift.2. Pick the Human heritage and an Elven heritage giftThe first one will give you a Half-Elf that more or less resembles the Half-Elf in 5e. The second one will give you someone like Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. Now while Level Up allows you the choice of picking up any heritage/heritage gift combo, some will be sought out more than others.</blockquote>

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