Variant Ancestries 

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• New rules for Custom Ancestries: a variant of the Custom Lineage rules, Custom Ancestry allows you to build more varied types of creatures by selecting from a variety of ancestral features using a simple, modular system.
• Variant Ancestries for Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, and Gnomes, which each trade the “Subrace” feature (and possibly a few other ancestral features) for a Feat at 1st level. 
• “Blooded Feats,” which allow Custom and Variant Ancestries to gain some of the features of other ancestries. These feats are balanced so that a Variant Human with one of these feats is almost mechanically identical to a Half-Elf or Half-Orc.