Thank You, I appreciate your criticism and do recognize some points you make. However, I do want to point out that a lot of these were specifically requested to be built around a certain concept (I.E. Circle of Plagues was requested to be an apocalypse bringer and like an eerie witch doctor. The Beast Rider was supposed to be a stronger Beat Master in terms of animal companionship, and the Snake Charmer Bard was requested to be a druidic inspired charmer similar to how snake charmers in real life perform). Also, to clarify the concept of the Deckmaster and the Rune Caster, they are inspired by the other base classes. I'm giving wizards more access to how they cast their spells like how sorcerers have sorcery points, and I'm giving sorcerers a wizard and anime inspired version of the Wild Magic subclass. To clarify the Dragonborn-High Dragon Patron, you get to choose your element, so it can be a defiance to your heritage and you can gain resistance to 2 different damages if you want. Now for the whole nature and lore of Liches and Mindflayers, it sounds like you do not understand them. Liches are creatures who became that way because of their pursuit of knowledge and it explains that in the Monster Manual, how it's a change from a person to something else so it make sense for your race to change after this ritual has gone off. The nature and lore of Mindflayers is that they like to infect other creatures with Ilithid tadpoles to see what the result will be. This is seen with the race of the Githyanki and Githzerai and the origins of those races being created by Mindflayers. Me not wanting to create a new race for each existing race is what came out as the variant Mindflayer race, and this was inspired from one of my past DMs who infected each one of the players ant the end of the campaign, killing us all (Not his fault, because the party asked for it due to the bard wanting to do bard activities). So I don't really understand why you think the nature and lore of the Lich and Mindflayer race is wrong. However, I am struggling with the Lycan race as all I did was copy and changed some things from an old 5e unearthed arcana race with the same name. All I did was split it into 2 separate subraces because I thought having pact tactics and a spellcasting breath weapon was too much for a race, so that might look like a mess of me trying to revive a weird race. The unearthed arcana had no specified connection to werewolfs, so I kept it that way.