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The material here uses the rules in the 2014 Player’s Handbook, except where noted. Providing feedback on this document is oneway you can help shape the next generation of D&D.  \nInside you’ll find the following content:  \nCharacter Races. These are the Race options being considered for the Player’s Handbook—all with updated design.  \nCharacter Backgrounds. Here you’ll see the fun role that a character’s Background is going to play in helping flesh out the character’s origin.  \nStarting Languages. This section specifies the number of languages a character knows when created.  \nFeats. Every 1st-level Feat mentioned herein appears in the “Feats” section, which contains both new and revised Feats.  \nRules Glossary. In this document, any term followed by an asterisk appears in a glossary at the end. This glossary defines certain rules terms that appear in this document, focusing on terms that have been clarified or redefined or that don’t appear in the 2014 Player’s Handbook.  \nBefore delving into these new options, please read the “This Is Playtest Material” sidebar.  \nTo learn more about the design in this article, we invite you to view the accompanying video.  \nTHIS IS PLAYTEST MATERIAL  \nThis article is presented for playtesting and feedback. This D&D material is in draft form, usable in your D&D campaign but not refined by full game development and editing. It isn’t officially part of the game.  \nFeedback. The best way for you to give us feedback on this material is in the survey we’ll release on D&D Beyond. If we decide to make this material official, it will be refined based on your feedback, and then it will appear in a D&D book.  \nPower Level. The character options you read here might be more or less powerful than options in the Player’s Handbook (2014) . If a design survives playtesting, we adjust its power to the desirable level before official publication. This means an option could be more or less powerful in its final form.  \nDETERMINING YOUR ORIGIN  \nAfter choosing your character’s Class, it’s time to consider the character’s origin. Who are the character’s ancestors? And how did the character spend the years leading up to a life of adventure? To help answer those questions, you choose three things for the character:  \n• a Race  \n• a Background  \n• a language  \nA character’s Race represents ancestry and confers game traits to the character. A character’s Background is a collection of characteristics that represent the place and occupation that were most formative for the character. 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