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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8646602" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Limited innate spellcasting has been a thing for as long as I’ve played D&D, so at least 3.5e. It does seem like such race features have gotten more common with every edition though. In 3.5 there were a few races that could innately cast a spell or two once a day, and often they came with level adjustments. In 4e, most races had a unique Encounter Power, which were not spells as such, but functioned similarly enough. In 5e, a lot of those same abilities got translated into spells that a race could cast once and recovered on a short rest, and as we’ve seen, such abilities are now starting to get updated to Prof. times between long rests, and being usable with any spell slots you get from your class.I’ll add that I don’t really recall many races granting free cantrips prior to 5e, but that seems fairly common now too.</blockquote>