I'm glad you can't change race with a respec. I don't really like that you can change the class of the origin characters, that doesn't really make sense given their class is so tightly bound to their story and it seems like doing so may break some things. I thought being able to multiclass them was plenty of flexibility. 100 gold seems cheap, I wonder if it scales with level? Its good that you can get hirelings very early, it should help with the people that really want normal characters in their party, although I wonder if they will also have locked races? Looking forward to more details on multiclassing.
Edit: Also holy %#$# pack of the blade essentially gives you the hexblade ability of using your spellcasting stat - going to make a lot of paladin warlocks happy with that! Has to be one of the most requested class features.
