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Or maybe it's sounds odd and clinical, like "species" sounded odd and clinical - and not like fantasy but science fiction - some years...

Well, a lot of humans have some amount of Neanderthal ancestry. Same genus, different species. Probably. Paleo taxonomy is complicated.

Do you maybe mean a different book? "The lore of humans depicts orcs as rapacious fiends, intent on coupling with other humanoids to...

No you don't... "Human" is the species and your ancestors are from the same species.

As Addendum to the previous post about the "Dragonmarks article on the old WotC website": Two "kanon" continuationions of the article...

The mechanics (crunch) are IMHO the priority because it's the only hard fact the authors can control. The flavour (fluff) (description...

Having multi-species parents in the D&D game would have been fine if every single species had that opportunity. It's the fact they...

I'd like to think we don't, but people always try to put things in boxes and label them (for example, planetouched to refer to anyone...

Unfortunately, almost any term is poisoned due to long systemic issues with intermarriage. Humans don't have breeds. There is no other...

I for one am glad to see the species formally known as half-elves return under an endonym, with their own distinct set of abilities. The...

Yes. The term half-elf is reminiscent of that phrase. The whole language around half-races (in game) are coded with that kind of...

No. They can represent biracial people for someone (and I made the error in a former post to not consider this - sorry for that 😔) - but...

The main difference is in half elf + human, which as per lore would always produce human offspring, and half elf + elf, would always...

Sure, a whole slew of spells that only target humanoids (Hold Person) will now not target Kalashtar. Meanwhile they are susceptible to a...

Can someone tell me if there are any consequences of the new creature type for Kalasthar?