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Ironically, in my homebrew, that's what I ended up doing with classes, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to do it with races. Which I guess I didn't mention: if I were a player and the GM said this is how races are done, I wouldn't have a problem with it. I still wouldn't be interested in...

Ha! That's a fair point. I haven't been a customer or player of D&D since before 4e, unless you consider D&D to be a generic term for D&D-like fantasy roleplaying like Kleenex for facial tissue, or something. I still have an academic curiosity in the performance of the brand, I guess, which...

I'd rather have bespoke AI generated nonsense than the observably nonsensical narratives that most people believe are ironclad facts, so it doesn't seem all that scary to me. Most people have no idea how to (and even less interest) determine if facts "everyone knows" are falsifiable, or even...

Well trust me, there's a ton of them even if you don't know you any. (Speaking of selection bias. Not knowing any? That's actually difficult to imagine.) Although I'd probably characterize the ones I know best as WotC sceptics who were "maybes" to begin with, not really "yeses." The kind of...

I think a ton (or a tone; that might me more intriguing) who said yes or maybe before the previews started dropping have changed their mind to no. I've seen very little positive feedback on the previews. Granted, there's some selection bias where I get my news, but still.

No, not at all. Mechanics don't matter too much to me as long as they don't get in the way. Not saying that I do that with races, because I don't, but it wouldn't bother me very much if at all. Microlite2020 almost did that, but not quite no mechanics at all. That said, I still play human nine...

The last batch. Orcs in my setting are mostly pretty bad news, but not obligatorily so, to introduce a little bit of nuance. Balogh is not only heroic but also charismatic. Vaspar Oksandros is a scumbag, on the other hand, an important figure in the Cherskii Mafia. Merra Kuzalash is a kind of...

My probably penultimate batch: mostly villains, again. Murchad Gibson, a corrupt officer of the town and associated rural hinterlands of Burlharrow. To get his way politically, he's made a deal with loathsome ratmen who have killed the mayor and infected the town. The mayor has been seen around...