With the posting of the archer build of the Fighter with a Folk Hero background, we’ve learned… not that much more.

Folk Hero: This is a new background, which gives the Rustic Hospitality trait. Skills? Certainly Animal Handling and perhaps Survival.

Fighting Style: Archery: The bonus to attack has changed to +2, up from +1.

No Mount proficiency? Does the Vehicles (Land) proficiency include riding horses? It wouldn’t surprise me.

Ability Score Modifiers: Mike Mearls has confirmed that most non-humans get +2 to one stat and +1 to another. I’ve also heard that Humans get +1 to all stats, but there will be options to replace that with something else in the full rules.

For my other articles on what has changed since the Interim Rules supplements…

• The Fighter
• The Cleric
• The Rogue
• The Wizard
• Monster Stats
• Other Changes

And it seems that much of what I wrote about playing the D&D Next playtest characters still applies:

• Combat and the Fighter
• Healing and the Cleric
• Playing the Rogue
• Spell-casting and the Wizard