For one it opens the door to 3.5 style racial bullshit where youre a Half ogre half dragon half elf.
Also it goes against the very idea of fatnasy races and quite frankly the reason for doing it is insulting.
"This fantasy game has non human species that have different stats, this implies that different ethnicities of humans are .... "What now? different? Compareable to orcs? Yeah the twitter drama pisses me off.
And crawford pandering to those dinguses pisses me off too.
That realy quick knee jerk reaction because some chucklefucks decided "Orcs are always chaotic evil, thats racist against minorities" on twitter. Fuck man, thats embarassing.
From a gameplay perspective its a complete mess.
As for my table im not too concerned as i dont run 5e, but im used to running a very restricted set of races in my games (you get 5, no you dont get dwarves) and i arleady feel bad for any newbie 5e DM that gets a player that created some inhuman monstrosity with this thing and thinks this is fair and balanced.
But lets not kid ourselves. What this book realy does is making you be able to run Variant Human but on any race you want.
So basically any race now will be a skill for Vuman because theres no point in taking any other racial.
i dislike it. Its bad in Design, its bad in Philosophy and its lazy in content aswell from what ive seen.
