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The more you look into it, the more you realise that the entire term 'species' is a complete mess. Ring species are especially interesting.

I find handouts and manipulatives useful in moderation, but they can quickly get overwhelming. This set will therefore probably not be...

Nah. Sounding scientific wasn’t the problem with species (which I still dislike as the term to replace race, but it’s no longer a battle...

Even moreso than that, it's utilized for plant life, which is even more dehumanizing.

Well, a lot of humans have some amount of Neanderthal ancestry. Same genus, different species. Probably. Paleo taxonomy is complicated.

It’s a term typically used for (non-human) animals, and so is dehumanizing when applied to human(oid)s

It's certainly invisible most of the time, unless you're reporting the impact to the players a lot. I do a fair amount of ToTM, so I...

Fair. I shouldn't say completely useless. Instead, they are greatly diminished in use, and depending on the abstraction used, may either...

I’m not the one you asked, but I run both TotM and on grid, and I find uses for slow and push in TotM. But I don’t adhere strictly to...

I feel exactly the same. I’m thinking of introducing a house rule where instead of gaining mastery in specific weapons, you learn...

I like them, although honestly I find the implementation of them a little too restrictive; I'd prefer them to be a bit more flexible...

Do we really need an umbrella term for mixed-heritage species? Can’t such species just have their own unique names, like Khoravar and...

1d4 long rests is a little weird, I probably would have just gone with one long rest.

If the horror UA at all is still pointing at a Ravenloft book, then I suspect dhampir and reborn to be remade as undead

I for one am glad to see the species formally known as half-elves return under an endonym, with their own distinct set of abilities. The...