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I like folk and people (folk sounds more fantasy-ish).
This is so bad I actually kind of like it.Bio-Form.
And I ditched ability score modifiers based on race/ancestry/species ages ago. Largely because they are absent in the RC and I've found even 5e can comfortably live without them.
Alternity, like many sci-fi games, uses Species. This sounds weird in pre-industrial fantasy settings, and.... is even less accurate than "race" in most of them. Someone already mentioned "metatype" in Shadowrun, which is worth noting because Shadowrun is based on a modern Earth setting and the various metatypes are neither separate races nor separate species; Shadowrun tries to use metatype discrimnation as a clumsy allegory for contemporary racial politics and it just doesn't land because of this.
I was thinking earlier that stat bonuses should be tied to classes. I mean what are the odds that a player who selects a wizard is NOT looking for an INT boost?
Its actually a bit more complicated than that.Shadowrun uses Metatype. There elves and orcs are explicitly humans who have goblinized.
Some editions of Shadowrun give scientific nomenclature to the various metatypes: Elves are Homo Sapiens Nobilis, Orks are Homo Sapiens Robustus, Humans are (re?)classified as Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Wouldn't this make the various metatypes different species of Homo?