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D and D expanding species options beyond
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humanoid is neat, but I don't think it
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really affects the game in any
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significant way. The biggest
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disadvantage of being a humanoid is
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exposure to spells hold person and
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dominate person, which are lower level
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than the comparable hold monster and
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dominate monster spells. So like that is
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the single vulnerability that you have
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for being humanoid. Everything else is a
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positive. If you are a different
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creature type, you will have different
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vulnerabilities. For example,
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changelings are fay now and kalashtar
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are aberration. That exposes you to
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spells like protection from evil and
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good and dispel evil and good, hallow
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and other spells like that that target
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those creature types or at least that
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can. But you're also immune to hold
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person and dominate person. The issue is
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you're pretty unlikely to run into
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enemies that use any of those options.
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Most of the enemies don't prepare spells
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like hold person or hold beast or
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anything like that. Like the the
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creature type specific spells are pretty
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rare and having gone through the monster
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manual, I don't remember seeing them
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anywhere really. Protection from evil
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and good might come up, but even when it
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does, it's pretty easy to break
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concentration on an enemy. So that's
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really not a big deal. So I don't think
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the creature type changes are really
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going to have a huge effect on the game.
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Even so, what I would have done if I was
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the one designing the game, I would have
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just allowed creatures to have multiple
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creature types. Like Kalashtar, they're
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humanoid and also aberration. Warforge,
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they're humanoid and also construct.
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Like, I think that could be interesting.
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It would require fiddling with some
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rules, especially around spells like
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hold person and things like that. But I
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think that would make more sense and it
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would still mean that all players are
