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1 - Core System
The complete v4.0 character-origin procedure, shared rules, and compatibility guidance.
8 - Reference and Playtest
Quick-reference tables, design benchmarks, and feedback guidance.
5 - Using D&D Backgrounds
How v4.0 works with the campaign's native D&D 5e and existing Hiraeth backgrounds.
Hiraeth Adventuring Guild Ancestry System v4.0
A lore-grounded playtest system for ancestry, physical lineage, regional heritage, ancestral traits and talents, mixed lineage, and optional character Flaws. It uses the campaign's normal D&D 5e background system rather than replacing it. This separate v4.0 bo...
2 - Ancestries
Nine physical ancestry chassis, their lineages, quick packages, and ancestry talent lists.
3 - Versatile Lineages
Aasimar, Tiefling, and mixed-ancestry options that replace a normal lineage.
4 - Heritages
Regional peoples, communities, and ways of life, separated from both inherited lineage and profession.
6 - Universal Ancestral Traits and Talents
Ancestry-neutral level-1 Traits and later Talent choices available at each ancestry milestone.
7 - Optional Flaws
Optional universal, ancestry-, lineage-, and heritage-associated story pressures that never purchase power.
00 - Start Here - HAG Ancestry System v4.0
Playtest status: this is a complete but deliberately unfinished v4.0 playtest. It does not silently replace an earlier ancestry book. A campaign uses it only when the GM says it does. The Four Decisions Every v4.0 character makes the same four origin decisio...
1.1 - Character Origin Procedure
Step 1: Choose an Ancestry Your ancestry provides creature type, size, Speed, senses, and a small set of inherited traits. An ancestry does not determine personality, alignment, profession, language, or ability-score increases. Step 2: Choose a Lineage Choose ...
1.2 - Shared Rules and Glossary
Origin Vocabulary Ancestry is the broad physical body and inherited nature. Lineage is the predefined physical, magical, environmental, or supernatural sub-race package within an Ancestry. A Versatile Lineage replaces the normal Lineage but retains the Ancestr...
1.3 - Compatibility with Existing 5e Characters
V4.0 is written for the Hiraeth 5e rules environment and can support either 2014-style or 2024-style classes. Backgrounds Use the background system selected by the campaign without alteration: A 2014-style background provides exactly the proficiencies, langua...
1.4 - Power Budget and Safety Rails
These are design rules for v4.0 content and adjudication. Level-1 Budget An ancestry chassis, one lineage, one narrow Ancestral Detail, and one level-1 Ancestral Trait together should approximate one modern 5e species package. Heritage is language and story ac...
2.1 - Human
Hiraeth's humans are the mortal children of Arcana, the god of magic. Every Human carries a small inherited spark of that creation, while nationality and upbringing belong to Heritage and profession belongs to Background. Hiraeth Context Arcana created humanit...
2.2 - Dwarf
Dwarves are dense-boned, stonewise people whose communities include deep delvers, volcanic holds, river forges, and surface nations. Political identities such as Ossurian Old Guard or New Guard are Heritages, not inherited bodies. Hiraeth Context Many dwarven ...
2.3 - Elf
Hiraeth's elves are long-memory people shaped by environment, magic, and community. Their lives are longer than human lives but not the many centuries common to some other settings. Hiraeth Context Hiraeth elves are peoples of concentrated memory, environmenta...
2.4 - Gnome
Gnomes are compact, detail-focused people whose traditions range from living forests to crystal workshops and deep settlements. Technocratic education belongs to Heritage or Background rather than blood. Hiraeth Context Gnomes are small, curious, and frequentl...