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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9412892" data-attributes="member: 18">Well, they've clearly realized that "We removed the half-races because some people didn't like them" was actually its own kind of dodgy erasure given he's now spinning it as "they were too similar to Orcs/Elves", so I imagine they've also realized that "Pick-a-Parent" is basically unintentionally but strongly aligned with a whole giant pile of horrifically racist sentiments (like, think of a certain kind of American cookie and how that's applied to certain people, and particularly biracial ones, or the one-drop rule and how it has impacted perceptions of race in the US), so I presume they've had the good sense to move away from that permanently. It's just more trouble than its worth.Yeah which is another reason I don't think it's coming back. Also I don't think it even works fine for Dragonlance. It certainly wouldn't for Taladas (not that anyone cares!).My guess is that individual settings where half-races are important will get rules for them (probably not called half-X, but something more setting-specific) in that setting, if it's redone for 2024-era.And that we'll see something akin to Tasha's approach to custom species come back in a future Tasha's replacement/update as the general way to create an entirely custom species. Also I presume there's some guidance for DMs on building species in the DMG.</blockquote>