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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9802129" data-attributes="member: 58172">5e 2024 feels more cosmopolitan when referring to cultural roles rather than species traits. The reorganization of background mechanics makes characters feel different because they express features of the culture. But I am less sure the reorganization makes the setting feel different.When thinking about my <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/for-a-setting-that-emphasizes-the-five-power-sources.715905/page-3#post-9801931" target="_blank">5.5 setting here</a>, it is only in the "urban" cities that one even notices the mechanics update, because one can have an encounter with two different species serving in the same role, such as two city guards. Even then I am unsure two species using the same mechanics is noticeable narratively, while the DM describes the encounter. The mechanics is more like a subtle encouragement that makes it easier for DMs to run cosmopolitan multispecies encounters.Yeah, I enjoy the setting neutrality of the 2024 core.In my setting whose development is still in progress, a design goal is to emphasize the power sources. I have the Dwarf-founded cultures emphasizing the Martial power source. I happen to have Dwarf originating in mountains then spreading to underdark and surface wetlands. I was happy to find nothing in the Players Handbook contradicted this particular setting.</blockquote>