Phb 2024 Backgrounds Color. The 2024 player’s handbook comes with 16 backgrounds that you can use. Backgrounds essentially give you free reign for ability score increases and your choice of an origin feat (see the section on backgrounds, below), and the advice for species is to simply ignore their ability score.
However, if none of those take your fancy, you can use a. Backgrounds list three ability scores, choose either +1/+1/+1 or +2+1 from among these.