Race Overhaul

WARNING: UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NOT FOR ACTUAL PLAY...YET

Rethinking how races (now called "lineages") work for PC construction.

Lineage: The "biological" part. Every lineage specifies

• Size (both category and suggested height/weight bands)
• Age (both age of physical maturity and usual max age)
• Base speed (walking + any others as appropriate)
• Ability Score Increase (+1 to one ability score from the list given, total ASI cannot exceed +2 to any given ability score)
• Status. One of "core", "regional X", "rare", and "X-touched". Core lineages are found everywhere and raise no especial eyebrows. Regional lineages are common/normal in region X, but will raise eyebrows elsewhere. Rare lineages raise eyebrows everywhere. Touched (X) is special--these are more like templates attached to core or regional lineages rather than independent lineages. They may add, change, or modify characteristics of the parent lineage.
• Some combination of features. One minor feature only counts as half of a major feature; each lineage has the equivalent of 2 major features.

Culture: The area you come from. In general, any lineage can come from any culture. Restrictions are as noted in each description. Cultures specify

• Region (where they're mostly found)
• Ability Score Increase (+1 to one ability score from the list given, total ASI cannot exceed +2 to any given ability score)
• Extra languages. 1 or more languages other than Common, which every adventurer speaks.
• Proficiencies. 3 total proficiencies (tools, skills, or otherwise).
• Feature. One major-equivalent feature.

Background: As currently, except also pick an ability score to increase by +1 of your choice. Total from lineage, culture, and background can't exceed +2 to any single ability score (so +1/+1/+1 or +2/+1).

Lineages

Core Lineages

Human

Dwarf

Ihmisi

Orc

Regional Lineages

Hobgoblin (Western Noefra)

Gwerin (Western Noefra, Southern Soefra)

Halfling (Western Noefra)

Dragonborn, True (Western Noefra)

Sher'ka (Great Rift)

Zandolit (Great Rift)

Ophidian (Jungle of Fangs)

Soulforged (Western Noefra)

Barbegazi (Nocthean Caldera)

Jazuu (Noefra)

Rare Lineages

Cysgor

Goror

Gnome

Kalasaa

Touched Lineages

Light-touched (Celestial)

Fiend-touched (devil)

Hell-touched (demon)

[Flame|Ocean|Wind|Stone]-touched (elemental)

Dragon-touched

Fey-touched

Cultures

Generic (multi-region)

Cosmopolitan

Maritime

Tribal

Rootless

Rural

Specific

Wall-builder (God-bound)

Wyrmhold Clan

Ancestral

Fang-kin

Uulani

Abandoned Clan