👥5e - Heritages👥

Presented in this section are heritages from which to choose when building your character.

Your character’s physical appearance is determined by their heritage, as well as physical aspects like size and Speed. All traits gained from your heritage are considered to be biological in nature.

While these traits are primarily mechanical, your heritage can still play a large part in shaping your adventurer’s story. When choosing your heritage, ask first who your character’s parents are. Do they still have a relationship with them, or did something happen? If so, what? If your character was \adopted and raised in a culture other than their parents’, you can think about how that has affected them. If your character still has a relationship with their family, think about how that has affected their decision to adventure. Are they doing it out of necessity, to help support their family? Are they adventuring to escape overbearing parents?

Any Culture

Your charcter can grow up in any culture you want, as long as you answer yourself why they were raised that way.

Mixed Heritage

With your Game Master’s approval, you can choose a heritage gift from a heritage other than the one you originally chose; this allows for the easy creation of adventurers with parents of two different heritages, or use of bases other than human for heritages such as tieflings. For more flavor, you and your Game Master may even decide that this affects things such as physical appearance, life span, or size in a way that is unique to your character.