- Backgrounds now determine your character creation ability score bonuses instead of your Species
- Here are the rules for creating your own background if you don't want to use one of their pre-generated backgrounds
- ASI: You can increase one ASI by 1 and the other by 2, or increase three different ASIs by 1 each
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose any 2 skills, and you gain profiency with them
- Tool Proficiencies: You gain 1 tool profiency
- Language: Choose one Standard and one Rare language
- Feat: Choose a 1st level feat
- Starting Gold: You get 50 gp