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Jhor'guntaal very much still play into the "bridge between two peoples" angle, but apart from House Medani and the sporadic first-generation types, Khoravar generally do not. They see themselves as a distinct people native to Khorvaire, separate from their human and elven ancestors who...

Other settings handling mixed ancestry poorly in the past is reason to fix how those settings handle mixed ancestry going forward. Not to strip mixed ancestry from them all, especially the one setting that handled it well.

Except in Eberron.

And so the only viable alternative is a world where no one can play a mixed ancestry character at all? Because that's functionally where we're heading. Retaining distinct single ancestry mechanics while turning mixed ancestry into an aesthetic choice effectively means eliminating mixed ancestry...

I still don't understand why "Well, we can't condone min-maxing" is a suitable justification for not even trying to develop a system for mixed character ancestries.

And how, pray tell, does that support major, mid campaign character development that completely changes the character's story arc moving forward? A formerly non-religious character who finds religion and becomes an devout agent of their new god? A warlock who reneges on their pact and begins to...

Not all character concepts map 100% to a single class/subclass, and in game character arcs can very much alter a PC's trajectory in ways their initial class/subclass choice may not support.

Setting aside the broader issues re: the invocations, I don't think the lack of ritual casting is really a problem anymore. Check the Ritual Casting section of the Playtest 7 glossary - page 52, I think. As long as you have the spell prepared and it has the Ritual tag, you can cast it as a...

To be fair, there are other options tagged as Legacy Content that aren't part of Volo's Guide/Mord's Tome of Foes - the Changeling and Shifter from Eberron, for example, as well as the Centaur, Minotaur, and Satyr from Theros - and that amount is certain to grow when the '24 revamp hits...

He was the primary DM for Acquisitions Incorporated for years and also DM'd for Dice, Camera, Action. Probably other examples, but those are the ones I'm most familiar with. EDIT: Gets caught in smoke bomb blast Darn ninjas... :p

I will say, one data point does not a trend make. Regardless, not a good sign...

It can still buy a round - depending on the situation, that can very much decide the outcome of the combat. It's shifting it to a more targeted, situational tool. Everyone's low hit points and clustered together? Counterspell that Fireball and give your team a chance to scatter and/or heal up...

I'm less concerned with how they're implemented mechanically and more with the loss of narrative flair. I have a warlock character concept whose backstory and "inciting incident" for making their pact is essentially sacrificing something of themselves in exchange for knowledge of runes and...

I will admit, "trap option" or no, I am sad to see Invocations like Eyes of the Rune Keeper just rolled into bog standard ritual casting. I liked being able to have that kind of utility spell active on demand without needing the necessarily to dedicate a full ritual casting to it - especially...

Or roughly 1 hour from now.

Might have just been something on their end. It's the scheduled premiere of a pre-recorded video, not a live broadcast, so if there was something they needed to fix (an issue with the audio balance or something similar), they may have needed to scrap the initial version of the video and upload a...

Trance is a meaningless ribbon, but I don't want my Khoravar to be forced to take it just by virtue of also wanting access to the equally worthless Fey Ancestry. Keen Senses gives me one fixed skill proficiency at the cost of two floating ones, removing the only "Human" trait they had. And the...

Meanwhile the Packet 1 Elf has Trance, Keen Senses, and the Elven Lineage choice (high/wood/dark elf) and everything that comes with it, at the cost of the '14 Half-Elf's Skill Versatility.

I am perfectly aware that the '14 half-elf and half-orc aren't being completely erased - they're not coming to take away my physical books and they'll still be on Beyond as legacy options for as long as that lasts. But they are clearly being depreciated, and the way they end up handling...

So in order to play a Khoravar from House Lyrandar, I now have to play a human and spend all of my first level feats to get both elf traits and my Mark of Storm. If the solution to not dealing with mixed-ancestry within the species mechanics is to turn bundles of species traits into feat...