Per recent book releases, Lineage Templates like Dhampir should be applicable to all races, and able to stack with a chosen base Race, such as Drow.  If I choose Drow, I get no option to add a Lineage--if I choose Dhampir as the race, I have no option to choose a base-race.

Per Van Richten's Guide, if you use the Ancestral Legacy option, your race is instead replaced by your lineage and you only keep the specified elements from your race.

For example, a drow that becomes a dhampir is now a dhampir, but gets to keep any skill proficiencies from being a drow, as well as any climbing, swimming speed. To represent this on your character sheet, you can manually add proficiencies and speeds to your sheet.

Manually adding these features is not ideal; especially for folks with disabilities.  The appeal of D&D Beyond is that it makes the game accessible and the character sheet easy to manage.  For me, a person with heavy motor impairment, it's a godsend. Having to manually input features and racial abilities does not list them in the Special Abilities/Spell area, which makes it difficult to keep track of/remember.

The whole point of this forum section is to give feedback; telling people to 'just do this', is not inclusive or community minded.

I apologise, I wasn't trying to tell you to 'just do this', I was attempting to provide a workaround in the interim until the team is able to implement a more native solution to the character builder.

The team is aware that the character builder does not natively support the Ancestral Legacy option, as detailed here, here and here, and options for better supporting this in future are obviously being considered.

As for inputting these features, you don't have to do it entirely manually as the sheet does automate and simplify some of the selection process:

Adding a Skill Proficiency

Select 'Skills' from the bottom of the skill section

In the sidebar, click the skill you wish to add proficiency in

Then select 'Customise' and under 'Skill Proficiency Level', select 'Proficient'

This will give you proficiency in the selected skill, calculating all bonuses for you.

Adding a Speed

Select your speed, then select Customise

Type the relevant speed amount in the box next to the appropriate movement type

I hope this helps

Great guide, Davyd! :) 

I think your responses and guides are very inclusive and community minded btw 👍

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Great guide, Davyd! :) 

I think your responses and guides are very inclusive and community minded btw 👍

Aww shucks, thank you kind forum goer

The weird thing is that if a Lizardfolk or Tortle became a dhampir, wouldn't they lose Natural Defense? It's not a skill proficiency or movement speed. Same thing with Goliath's losing half their carrying capacity. Or Kenku's suddenly being able to speak. It's weird.

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The weird thing is that if a Lizardfolk or Tortle became a dhampir, wouldn't they lose Natural Defense? It's not a skill proficiency or movement speed. Same thing with Goliath's losing half their carrying capacity. Or Kenku's suddenly being able to speak. It's weird.

 That would be good feedback for WotC!

the walkthrough is great for character creation, but would be nice to have a way to add to an established character, my group is playing through Strahd and would like to be able to easily add Dhampir

I think adding an option in the Origin Manager menu would be the cleanest choice

Any advances on this?

Character BECAME a Dhampir after level 2 and I see no way to accomplish this in the character sheet

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Any advances on this?

Character BECAME a Dhampir after level 2 and I see no way to accomplish this in the character sheet

 You're going to want to do the following:

1. Make a copy of the character
2. Change their race from their current race to dhampir
3. Go to the character sheet
4. Apply the Ancestral Legacy trait by copying the following from your previous version of the character to the sheet of the new character
   1. Add any racial skill proficiencies by selecting 'manage skills' and granting the appropriate ones
   2. Add any racial movement speeds by selecting the speed on your character sheet and adding any additional speeds, such as flying or swimming.

This will give you a legal character sheet for a dhampir that was originally another race.

So I don't see where the dhampir "race" selection is? What should I be looking for?

If you're in the character maker and selecting race, you want to select "lineages" and then the Gothlines(tm, Midnightplat) will drop down, Dhampir, Hexblood, Reborn.  It's not the most intuitve way to do it, but I guess the powers that be at DDB thought it best to compartmentalize the Gothic lineages from the rest of the Races.  Maybe if/when an active character takes on a lineage in game, some of the prior race's proficiencies are kept or what have you this way.  Not sure why they'd do it like that otherwise.

As it's not been changed still, are there any current plans to make adding a lineage to a character easier?
For example using the Origin Manager menu 

I'm looking at playing a dhampir soon and really wanted this fixed!

Is there any particular reason that even though i have access to van richten, dhampir is still no available in character creation?

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Is there any particular reason that even though i have access to van richten, dhampir is still no available in character creation?

Make sure you have actually bought the whole book, and not just the compendium content.

If the book is being shared with you through a campaign, make sure the character is in the campaign where the book is being shared.

I imagine since the acquisition of D&Dbeyond by WotC, there's probably some sort of system overhaul in the works, right.

Otherwise it's a bit strange that this feature still isn't implemented two years later. I just bought the lineages for myself to use in my character creation options and was upset to find that while the barebones are there it's kind of a 'do it yourself' feature. If I'd known that before purchasing, I probably wouldn't have done yet. I'd rather wait until it's a complete thing.

Any road map for this?