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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8021815" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I was looking through the spells that involve being humanoid - like Charm and Reincarnate.In 1e and 2e, the random table for Reincarnate brought you back as pretty much anything (was badger on the list?). It looks like 1e didn't specify what could be reincarnated (although it noted it worked for all PC races), 2e specified person. In 3e/PF it is any type of creature coming back as a creature of that type - so the humanoids random table is a wide variety of humanoids (from Bugbear to Elf). In 5e it can bring back any humanoid, but the random table only does so as a PhB race.It feels like how these spells work is a part of the structure that will need to change if they change humanoids.  If gnolls or lizardfolk are no longer humanoids, then charm and reincarnate are off the table?  If humanoids are humanoids, then reincarnate is wide open.  If reincarnate is wide open, it brings up something of the metaphysics of what has a soul or spirit.  (Do monstrous creatures not have one a la Percy Jackson?).</blockquote>