2024 Players Handbook Backgrounds. D&d's 2024 player's handbook emphasizes character backgrounds more, with 16 options available for a variety of dnd characters. The new species offered are the aasimar, goliath, and orc, but you’ll also see changes to classics such as the human.
While players will still choose a class, species, and background when creating a character using the 2024 player’s handbook, the features associated with backgrounds and species have. Page 38 of the 2024 player’s handbook includes a sidebar describing how to handle backgrounds from older books.