I feel like these changes make all PCs into glorified humans. All-humanoid PCs is bad enough, thanks very much but I think I’m going to pass on your new edition unless this change is not just dialed back but scrapped entirely and rethought.
First of all, most racial traits have to be acquired as feats. WTF?!
Second, even the name implies trying to make PCs more similar to one another. “Ancestry” has a much more distant and unimportant feel than “race” which makes me think they’re trying to push all the uniqueness of a PC into classes. This is a terrible idea. It doesnt work. 5e D&D proves very clearly that making fewer options for races (I’m not even going to deign to use the new term they’ve conjured up) makes a game that’s interesting the first time you play it and then quickly becomes a bore. Please, please, PLEASE don’t make the same mistake Wizards of the Coast made. Please.
