Dungeons & Dragons: Everything You Need To Know About Custom Lineage

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For many Dungeons & Dragons players, one of the most enjoyable parts of the game is character creation. Through a character's race, class, subclass, background, spells, and feats, players have a significant degree of freedom and customization when it comes to making a completely personalized and unique character.

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However, while D&D features tons of character creation options, the game does feature a finite number of races that may not fit exactly what you have in mind for a specific character concept. Luckily, the ever-excellent Tasha's Cauldron of Everything added rules for creating characters with origins that may not fall into a more traditional mold. Known as Custom Lineage, this option provides players with an unparalleled degree of freedom to make any type of character their heart desires.

Custom Lineage is an option that allows players to easily create a custom character that caters to an idea that wouldn't be fulfilled by the traditional races in the game. This option is incredibly flexible, potentially helping resolve various issues in character creation.

Firstly, if a player wants to create a character of a given race, but is not satisfied with how that race's features would reflect their character's lineage or upbringing, this option can serve as a substitute.

Alternatively, if a player is looking to create a race that doesn't have rules printed in a fifth edition source book, Custom Lineage can be used to help bring such characters to life. This makes it a great option for those looking to create characters such as a creature found within the Monster Manual like a Gnoll, a character of a race from a prior D&D edition, such as a Lupin, or even a