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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9351301" data-attributes="member: 66357">Admittedly been a bit out of the loop these past few months, so I can't really claim to know precisely what Crawford said or didn't say.It may just have taken time to parse out exactly what the feedback was telling them. They may have known that the ardling didn't make the cut fairly quickly, but needed extra time to hone in on exactly why. Feedback saying "the ardling should be more anthro-animal than planetouched" doesn't necessarily mean that the core idea of including celestial planetouched in the PHB wasn't popular, just that the ardling itself didn't fulfill that goal.Aasimar have a proven track record on that front, and the decision to also add in goliaths had already cracked the proverbial seal on pulling options from Monsters of the Multiverse into the PHB (orcs get a pass, since...well... gestures to the void where half-orcs used to exist), so I'd imagine there would have been less resistance to the idea of also tackling the aasimar once they reached the conclusion that a slot for "celestial planetouched" wasn't entirely off the table.</blockquote>