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1) I am trying something new here; I will only be allowing the races listed below, and would prefer if everyone played a different race! Be civil, and let me know what you guys think of the races; I feel they represent what I want them to very well, and think they're thematic, fluffy, and appropriate without outright shattering the concept of relative balance. I created them all as an experiment in recapturing the fantastic-ness of Fantasy that I feel the 'balanced and average' races of traditional 5e have lost. This is purely my opinion, and my own efforts at seeing how the system will handle this sort of thing; as such, the stat shuffling of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything will not be allowed.

2) I would prefer if we didn't bother with Unearthed Arcana or any outside homebrew; I'm already changing a lot of the basework of the game myself, I don't want to muddy my musings with too many other ideas.
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and with that I dip to go prepare for my real life game