Typical - A Varsatile Heritage

[LordVanya]

It has always nagged me that with all the diverse heritages available in P2e, that there isn't an option to just be a plain, unobtrusive member of your ancestry.

To that end, I made this available to all my players in case anyone can't decide on any of the existing heritages or just wants their character to be common.

Typical (Versatile Heritage)
Common

You are a typical member of your ancestry. Instead of being part of any particular heritage, you are just you. Select one 1st level ancestry feat to which you have access. This feat is considered to be part of your heritage and can’t be changed later.

Thoughts?

[The Raven Black]

That is interesting and should be ok balance-wise, seeing how it is far less than the Ancestry Paragon variant rule.

[Omni713]

Usually heritages are a little more powerful than 1st level ancestry feats. Maybe giving a little something extra like a free general feat as well. That could give someone access to the Adopted feat at 1st level maybe.

[Midnightoker]

Omni713 wrote:

Usually heritages are a little more powerful than 1st level ancestry feats. Maybe giving a little something extra like a free general feat as well. That could give someone access to the Adopted feat at 1st level maybe.

Given humans have a heritage that grants them a general feat and that's all it does and this is effectively a versatile heritage that grants a general feat, it's probably fine where it is. Honestly, its really good IMO. The fact that an Elf can pick up unburdened iron at level 1 or Dwarf can grab Nimble Elf already makes this pretty good IMO.

Not too strong, but pretty much on the money in terms of power IMO.

[The Raven Black]

I think Omni713 meant Ancestry feat + General feat, which sounds a bit too much.

[LordVanya]

I could throw in a skill training or maybe a weapon training for a single weapon? Just a little boost. Would that work?

[inshal chenet]

I would just have them pick a general feat instead of an ancestry feat. Or perhaps do a skill feat and an Ancestry feat.

[Sanityfaerie]

I don't think there's anything wrong with "slightly underpowered" in this case. It's not severely underpowered, and it applies to literally every ancestry there is. So... it might not be a particularly good deal in many cases, but if you have an ancestry for which all of the other heritages are uninteresting? Or one where they just want two level 1 ancestry feats?

I think ti's solid as-is. It's not necessarily top-tier, but not everything needs to be, and it absolutely would be situationally useful.