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DnD’s Rune Carver background and the Rune Shaper feat work great in the 2024 rules!
Feb 23, 2026
DnD’s Rune Carver background and the Rune Shaper feat work great in the 2024 rules! Magic Initiate is more powerful, but don’t let that stop you.
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D and D's rune carver background and a
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few others from the 2014 rules can be
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perfectly adapted to the 2024 rules. And
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the way they were designed actually
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makes sense as a precursor to how
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backgrounds work in the 2024 D and D
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rules. Starting in Dragon Lance, we
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started getting backgrounds that came
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with a feat at level one. So, this was
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like the precursor to what we now know
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as origin feats. you would get a
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background. The background would come
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with a feat. And sometimes those feats
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would have follow-up feats that you
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could get at level four, such as Strike
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of the Giants and the Squire of Salomnia
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feat having three other options, and
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then like the colored rope wizards. I'm
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forgetting the names right now. This
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user specifically points to the rune
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carver background out of Glory of the
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Giants, which gives you the rune shaper
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feat. Rune Shaper lets you learn several
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level one spells regardless of your
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spell list from like a specific list in
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the feat. Basically, you uh you
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accumulate runes as your proficiency
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bonus increases. And then each rune lets
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you pick another spell from the list.
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And there's some really great options on
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there. Chromatic orb, command,
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sanctuary, armor, agthus, and like those
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are just my personal favorites. The ones
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I rate blue on the website. Um, so those
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are really great to throw on basically
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any full caster. If you're building a
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full caster, Armor of Agthus is a really
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fantastic defensive option, like a
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bladinger, for example. Yes, you have a
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ton of AC and you're really good at
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concentration, but you still have no hit
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points. So, Armor of Agthus is a huge
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pad, and if you do get hit, you get
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retaliatory damage, which is amazing.
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Always awesome. Command is just a great
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crowd control spell. And like all of
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those spells that I listed work really
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well with upcasting. You do get to cast
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them once per day without a spell slot,
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but the real benefit is the ability to
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cast them with your own spell slots. And
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being able to upcast those powerful
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low-level spells from other spell lists
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offers a ton of options to other
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classes. Chromatic Orb is great on a
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bard. Command is great on a wizard.
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Armor of Agthus is great on anyone
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planning to be in melee like marshall
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bards. Absolutely. Yes, take this. So
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yeah, the rune carver background and
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then give it the rune shaper feat as an
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origin feat. Bring that into the 2024
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rules. Absolutely perfect. Very cool.
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Very fun. I would 100% allow this in my
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