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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 6370834" data-attributes="member: 1210">So over the years, D&D has given a lot of its races a variety of interesting and unique abilities. The brown race books in 2e, various racial substitution levels in 3e, things with racial prerequisites in any edition you'd care to name, and perhaps especially in 4e with the variety of extremely flavorful racial abilities and feats that built off of them- all of these have offered a plethora of ways to make your race a more important part of your character. I've been thinking about how to port some of these things over to 5e, at least as options. I think some (such as racial substitution level) can probably be worked in as subclasses, while others (such as many of the 4e racial abilities) might be better suited to being reincarnated as feats. What do you guys think? How would/do you plan to convert this kind of stuff over? Here is my first, gnome-oriented, stab at converting racial stuff forward:Sneaky GnomePREREQUISITES: Gnome    You have the gnomish propensity for disappearing down pat. You gain the following benefits:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When you are hit by an attack, you may use your reaction to turn invisible until the end of your next turn or until you attack. Once you use this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While you are invisible, you do not trigger opportunity attacks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While you are invisible, enemies have disadvantage on saving throws against your spells.</li> </ul>Does this seem to be in line with other feats in 5e? Is it too strong or too weak? How would you convert the gnomish Fade Away racial ability, and other racial elements, to 5e?</blockquote>

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