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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7730953" data-attributes="member: 7006">Heh... well, I consider racial mechanics to be so inconsequential to design that they could already have everything written, the Alpha testers having already hammered the mechanics out... that all was left was deciding how many of these racial variants needed to actually appear in the book.  So they throw out a UA to let us say "Like this one" / "Don't like this one"... and then they decide which ones to edit out of the completed document.After all... there were enough small goofs in Xanathar's (like the d8/d6 issue between the chart and the written text, and the unnecessary "magic weapon" phrasing in the Arcane Archer feature) which tell me they still do edits right up until the end... which is why there aren't enough final editing passes to catch these obvious problems.So the next book could easily be completely written... and now all that's left is layout. And once you do that and you see where your pictures fall on the page, you start editing/removing your text to get it to fit where it needs to go.  If that means taking out one of the six elf racial variants... you throw them out to us so we can tell them which one we don't care about.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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