rules for character creation. [...] With these rules, your character’s race will no longer be tied to inherent stat boosts and abilities. While the character creation rules are still available in 2014’s Player’s Handbook for anyone who wants to use them, Tasha’s will decouple race and origin from their 5th edition mechanics". Jon Ryan, for IGN, wrote: "The most noteworthy item is probably the new 'lineage' options, which allow players to adjust the features and ability modifiers traditionally associated with a character's race or species. [...] This notion of divesting a character's stats from their species has long been a topic of discussion among the D&D fanbase, and whether via discussions in forums or on social media, or feedback on previous Unearthed Arcana, it seems that much of the content in TCoE is a direct result of that type of player feedback". James Whitbrook, for Io9, highlighted that this book includes the highest levels of character customization seen in 5th Edition so far with the new rules that would allow players to discard previously "mandated traits and benefits" and "abilities and ideals [...] explicitly linked to racial stereotypes". Whitbrook also highlighted that this book is the first step to address race and inclusivity within the game and commented that "for Crawford, it’s not just about addressing previously longheld bias and privileges in races of the game—such as the negative stereotypes against Orcs and the aforementioned Drow, dark-skinned fantasy races that have been interpreted as the game’s take on minority characters in the past—but also giving players the freedom to pick whatever race they want while creating a character that doesn’t feel like a specific exemplar of that race". Critical reception In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending November 21, 2020", Tasha's Cauldron of Everything was #2 in "Hardcover Nonfiction". In the following weeks, it slipped to #8 and then to #22. Per Publishers Weekly, 105,022 units were sold in November 2020. In USA Today's "Best-Selling Books List" for the week of November 26, 2020, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything was #5 out of 150. In the following weeks, it slipped to #27 and then to #117. Charlie Hall, for Polygon, wrote that the book "is a great resource for everyone at the table, it's just not as dense and full-featured as the supplements that have come before" and there is "a decent bit of material that's been reprinted". Hall highlighted an