The Race Compendium is a terrific resource, with some truly fun new races for your players to enjoy. I'm particularly fond of the Mul and Revenant rules, with the Hengeyokai also being well done. Were I not using the Hengeyokai presented in Heroes of the Orient, this would be my second choice.

The addition of some characterful racial feats and race inspired spells rounds it all out nicely. A good addition to any DM's collection.

As a DM, I would be happy to allow these races in my game. The overall product is solid. With some art and some clean-up, this would actually be worthy of an official product.

Strengths:

• Professionally formatted and well-edited.
• Races are relatively well-balanced. It's nice to see a race like the Mul (I'm a fan of Dark Sun) brought into 5th edition.
• Racial feats is a good idea and well-implemented. I expect to see something like this in a full D&D supplement.

Weaknesses

• The Hengeyokai have an ability that's very much like the Lycanthrope transformation ability: humanoid, hybrid, animal form. The limitations of the Animal form are explained, but the limitations of they Hybrid form are not.
• I'm not sure that Ashen Reformation is really a 2nd level spell. It's honestly a nice addition at 1st.
• The lack of artwork limits us to other reference material for good guidelines on how the races actually appear. I would love to a $5 version with art. Heck, I would pay for the $10 printed version with art :)

At its current price this is a steal.

The races and subraces contained within are complementary to those published by WotC so far. I particularly appreciate the fact that the author took care of offering a racial feat for the new races and all of the official races as well. This product is well worth the price.