Is there any way to set a Race so that it counts as one of the levels of the character?
Primarily this is so that all "total-level" abilities (such as cantrips), gain their additional bonuses at the correct level (e.g. cantrips getting better at character level 5).
Cantrips should work correctly when added via a race. If you mean to have custom actions scale in a manner similar to cantrips then once you've saved an action you can add level overrides to it to increase the damage dice.
You can also choose at what level racial traits are granted, and limit spells to certain levels as well (so can group multiple spells under a single trait, but grant them at different levels, just need to find the character level box on the spell entry).
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The main issue is increasing the total-level of the character by the addition of the race. So that all total-level dependent things are handled automatically.
Do you mean you want the race to cause a player to count as a higher level than they actually are? That's not something that a race can do (and it arguably shouldn't), if you want to increase a character's level this can be done in the character builder?
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Do you mean you want the race to cause a player to count as a higher level than they actually are? That's not something that a race can do (and it arguably shouldn't), if you want to increase a character's level this can be done in the character builder?
In earlier versions of D&D it was possible.
For a homebrew reason I've changed race, and it uses up a level slot to do this. I was just hoping that dndbeyond would be able to add 1 to my character's overall level without selecting a specific class for that level.
Class levels fundamentally cannot come from anything but a class. There's no such thing as an 'empty' level, I don't know if DDB's system can even do that. Species taking up class levels is a concept D&D has abandoned for several editions now, and is vanishingly unlikely to ever make a comeback. I would recommend examining your species and seeing if there was any other way to do what you're trying to do by making the species count as a character class.
For a homebrew reason I've changed race, and it uses up a level slot to do this. I was just hoping that dndbeyond would be able to add 1 to my character's overall level without selecting a specific class for that level.
I'm just not sure why you'd want to do that? If there are reasons for changing race then just change race and work out with your DM how to justify it narratively. There's no reason it should cost you a level, because that will seriously impact the game if other players are all a level higher than you are. Unless the new race is some homebrew that's a lot stronger than what you had before, races are usually reasonably balanced against each other so there's no reason a change should cost anything as long as your DM says it's okay to do it.
If you're determined to do it then the only way I can think to do it would be to take a level in something that is of no benefit to you; there aren't really any truly neutral classes (they all give you stuff at first level) but you could for example take a level in Monk and just remember what your unarmed strikes are supposed to be (should you need to make any) for example, and adjust your hit-points if you need to?
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Is there any way to set a Race so that it counts as one of the levels of the character?
Primarily this is so that all "total-level" abilities (such as cantrips), gain their additional bonuses at the correct level (e.g. cantrips getting better at character level 5).
Cantrips should work correctly when added via a race. If you mean to have custom actions scale in a manner similar to cantrips then once you've saved an action you can add level overrides to it to increase the damage dice.
You can also choose at what level racial traits are granted, and limit spells to certain levels as well (so can group multiple spells under a single trait, but grant them at different levels, just need to find the character level box on the spell entry).
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The main issue is increasing the total-level of the character by the addition of the race. So that all total-level dependent things are handled automatically.
Do you mean you want the race to cause a player to count as a higher level than they actually are? That's not something that a race can do (and it arguably shouldn't), if you want to increase a character's level this can be done in the character builder?
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In earlier versions of D&D it was possible.
For a homebrew reason I've changed race, and it uses up a level slot to do this. I was just hoping that dndbeyond would be able to add 1 to my character's overall level without selecting a specific class for that level.
Class levels fundamentally cannot come from anything but a class. There's no such thing as an 'empty' level, I don't know if DDB's system can even do that. Species taking up class levels is a concept D&D has abandoned for several editions now, and is vanishingly unlikely to ever make a comeback. I would recommend examining your species and seeing if there was any other way to do what you're trying to do by making the species count as a character class.
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I'm just not sure why you'd want to do that? If there are reasons for changing race then just change race and work out with your DM how to justify it narratively. There's no reason it should cost you a level, because that will seriously impact the game if other players are all a level higher than you are. Unless the new race is some homebrew that's a lot stronger than what you had before, races are usually reasonably balanced against each other so there's no reason a change should cost anything as long as your DM says it's okay to do it.
If you're determined to do it then the only way I can think to do it would be to take a level in something that is of no benefit to you; there aren't really any truly neutral classes (they all give you stuff at first level) but you could for example take a level in Monk and just remember what your unarmed strikes are supposed to be (should you need to make any) for example, and adjust your hit-points if you need to?
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The level of monk could help mark a level as taken. Thanks for that idea.