Psybermagi says:
Can I be a Elf Assistant Beast Keeper? Some playbooks are race specific but it looked from the corebook that the optional races could be used for other things as well.
Yea I really don't know if/how Playbooks are balanced. And so if or how adding a race to a class might upset things.
I think that BtW is closest to B/X (aka OSE) in the constellation of OSR. And under that "model" demi-humans/other races are their own Classes. And given that BtW has specific racial playbooks, my instincts would be to say that there is no race selection separate from class under the playbook character creation model.
In a real game I'd dig into it more, but for our purposes let's keep it simple, and say, no.
If you want to be an elf take an elf playbook.
If you want to be the beast keeper, be the beast keeper.
Psybermagi says:
Do we start with only the spells, cantrips, rituals rolled?
Probably, yea. The Playbooks are supposed to be your one stop shop for creating your character.