I was considering doing a bunch of homebrew races to really flush out an upcoming Ravnica game I have planned and I wanted to get your thoughts on something. With custom lineage, I was thinking just making a bunch of Feats instead that add racial abilities and characteristics. Then having my players just manually add them in addition to their free trait. I figured this would be less work because I can skip some steps like adding in ability bonuses and such. Any drawbacks I might be missing here?
I'm guessing you're not wanting to get the Ravnica book, right?
Feats could be a good way around this to add different racial features. I had given some thought to making feats for different class/subclass abilities as a way to multiclass past level 20.
The only drawback I see is if there is options, the only thing feats can do with options is add Actions. So if a feature has some different options to choose from that needs to set different modifiers or select spells, it won't be possible.
If you use the original races as templates then you wouldn’t need to add all of that stuff, those features and ASIs would already be built in. All you would need to add is the new stuff.
I was considering doing a bunch of homebrew races to really flush out an upcoming Ravnica game I have planned and I wanted to get your thoughts on something. With custom lineage, I was thinking just making a bunch of Feats instead that add racial abilities and characteristics. Then having my players just manually add them in addition to their free trait. I figured this would be less work because I can skip some steps like adding in ability bonuses and such. Any drawbacks I might be missing here?
I'm guessing you're not wanting to get the Ravnica book, right?
Feats could be a good way around this to add different racial features. I had given some thought to making feats for different class/subclass abilities as a way to multiclass past level 20.
The only drawback I see is if there is options, the only thing feats can do with options is add Actions. So if a feature has some different options to choose from that needs to set different modifiers or select spells, it won't be possible.
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If you use the original races as templates then you wouldn’t need to add all of that stuff, those features and ASIs would already be built in. All you would need to add is the new stuff.
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