For one it opens the door to 3.5 style racial bullshit where youre a Half ogre half dragon half elf.
Do you have any information regarding specifics on character origins? I don't, but I will admit to not spoiling myself too heavily on the book's content, yet. If you know something I don't, maybe you can sway me... but nothing about what's been said seems to suggest to me that they're doing away with racial identity entirely, or giving players the option to create chimeric monstrosities like in 3.5.
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.
This was an entirely separate discussion. It's not directly related to the character origins, it was a discussion between Crawford and some others on political opinions in 5e. For what it's worth, I have my own problems with the matter. I don't want to get into it, though, especially since it's irrelevant.
i dislike it. Its bad in Design, its bad in Philosophy and its lazy in content aswell from what ive seen.
I'm going to take this opportunity to put you on the spot, however. What exactly *have* you seen? Because this seems like a knee-jerk reaction to a very skin-deep look at the content, not a legitimate criticism from someone who has inside knowledge.
