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It’s not a great analogy as you’ve said the room was crowded. These people aren’t doing it on purpose, and in fact can’t avoid it unless the situation changes and they will be standing on each others feet as well. However you are the only person complaining about a situation everyone finds...

Also thinking what is being presented in UA is what will eventually appear in OneD&D, they are throwing a lot of stuff out in the playtest and seeing what sticks. I mean we could get....

The counter point to that is most people don't like dramatic change either.

What would your solution be here if you believe that the new intake is making WotC handle it wrong? ;) At the moment they don't seem to be pleasing anyone. Still you folks don't need to worry about this old guard, I'm not answering the surveys. I'm happy to past this version of D&D off to a...

What government conspiracy, they literally said if you changed the words and ignored the bit about gorillas and dolphins. It could be offensive, yes and if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.

Except a lot of source books existed for different playable fantasy human ethnicities/cultures (often based on real world ones) at the same time, so clearly the none-human races weren't just stand ins for those cultures as they were represented by humans. Why are you for example saying savage...

So you could still allow half-orcs and half-elves with proper rules for them (and maybe a none "half" name), and perhaps in other settings have goliath/dwarf hybrids. Who knows? Maybe just leave it open for GM's to continue come up with their own ideas and homebrew, which by having some pretty...

But that would add more confusion, they removed race as it has two meanings (either a major biological division [like species], or an just ethnic one within the same biological one [like heritage]). If you replace it with "schmorp", while it has no baggage it also has no meaning so people could...

Well no it doesn't because gorillas and dolphins aren't lineages or an ancestry. They are different species which was precisely why I included them as an example so that it was clear I was talking about different species not heritage, ancestry or lineage. Well only if you are using the meaning...

Sure but if you actually have 1) change the words, and 2) ignore the context, before you can start taking offence then you are stretching a bit just so you can get upset. I'm not apologising for something I didn't say.

Why would I replace it with a word that has a different meaning? Stop trying to take offence where none is intended.

The only people similar to real world people in fantasy games are the same species, humans.

Well you can read it two ways, one the DM doesn't need to allow any hybrids, unless they want to. But also any hybrid combo is possible, if you like so don't feel restricted to just mixing humans with orcs and elves.

The Children of Different Humanoid Kinds literally starts. "Thanks to the magical workings of the multiverse" - They are making it clear different species are only having children due to magic, it's not something that normally happens.

Look if you want to try breeding with dolphins or gorillas that's up to you, but personally "species should stick to their own kind" isn't that offensive.

Well I've always played "race" as species (using the old meaning of the word), so half-races were always infertile which it makes it hard for them to develop a independent society. Remember in D&D race means species. There are no mixed-species people you would be taking human-gorilla crosses...

Not sure what you are suggesting, I mean WotC have changed the game, several times already. What's your point?

I agree in the first case, but not in the second. I think it actually aids storytelling if the hobbits, are weaker than the dwarves and the humans, and the elves are more dexterous.

Actually my first thoughts of sexual dimorphism tend to be of angler fish, and just how drastic they can be in nature. So yeah why not reflect that with stats. Starfinder has dimorphism with it's alien races (with stat adjustments) and seems to get away with it. "All lashuntas gain +2 Charisma...

Because bringing it back would likely annoy some people, even if it was for fantasy no-human races. I mean I wouldn't have a problem, but some people would, hence "contentious".