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Linnaean hierarchy is just putting an artificial classification system on what we find to give some order to it that makes some sense. I agree species is simply the 24 term, race is the 14 term and neither are meant to really be the exact match ups to scientific species usage in their D&D usage...

I am referring to them narratively as elemental chaos associated there in the 4e elemental origin lore that giants had in 4e. The elemental chaos has a bunch more association with Chaos in my mind than the pre-4e elemental planes. Mixing disparate elemental themes in 4e elemental chaos monsters...

I think Goliaths being in the 5e PH as a species makes them a species in D&D regardless of their lineage and ancestry. I think the term ancestry though has some narrative meaning. I think of the various different giants as different species though similar to dwarf and human with giant more of a...

Freeport: The City of Adventure 3.0 Fire Spectre, Fire Specter: Fire spectres are undead creatures created when blackhearted villains are burned alive. Their hatred burns so strong that the fires transform them into supernatural terrors. Fire spectre is a template that can be added to any...

Two paragraphs above that in the PH in the two-paragraph Goliath general narrative description section it explicitly says "Goliaths have physical characteristics that are reminiscent of the giants in their family lines." You seem to be taking the position that technically the special trait...

I definitely had Moltar as a kid. I was not aware there was a comic. Cool axe and mace. I am not sure if he, He-man action figures, Microknaughts, D&D figures (Warduke, Elkhorn, Northlord), and Star Wars figures were miniature stand ins in early D&D games or not or just fantasy action figure...

The little that the PH gives us to work from is that the subtype is based on the giants in the family line. Not on choices of the individual Goliath or a random elemental chaos expression or whatever. They are essentially planetouched but for giants instead of outsiders.

Fang & Fury 3.0 Vampire Scion, Relatively Weak Vampire Scion: The humanoid or monstrous humanoid must be killed by a vampire’s blood drain attack, then fed blood by the same vampire to restore it to 0 hit points. A vampire scion’s first few days of unlife are dark ones. In a process called the...

I am not sure what difference that makes that you are trying to demonstrate here. Labor droids are sold. C-3PO and R2D2 are sold. Clones are commissioned. Humanoid slaves are sold. I mean even the little mouse droid on the Death Star had enough of a mind to act scared of Chewbacca growling at...

How Long Did You Play Online D&D Before Trying Another Game

Doing a little looking I see Legends is the rebrand of what used to be called the Extended Universe so the novels and comics and games lore from before Disney and back when Lucas authorized and had control and veto power over everything licensed out for canon lore purposes. Between making stuff...

That seems a jump. People similarly do lots of things not under their own initiative and it does not mean they don't have true free will in the manner in which we are comparing people and droids here.

Tony Stark's easy super energy generators being released to the world for mass implementation at the end of a movie but never referenced again stuck out to me. You can theorize it powering lots of stuff, but it seems most everything afterwords from what we see is completely the same whether that...

The big two droid exemplars in the films are R2D2 and C-3PO. They seemed to be mentally complex beings with the ability to make decisions but strong base personalities (brave dedicated rebel agent and fussy extremely risk averse servant). In Jabba's they had the threat of droid torture to...

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Explorers of Prime 3.0 Undead: Nodes can open anywhere, from underground caverns to lush meadows; a node welling up in a graveyard (or ancient battlefield) might produce a plague of undead, which is why being buried on sanctified ground is so important. Created: These are pure constructs. They...

Clint was talking about those who were left behind but who were on say a plane. With a pilot and copilot and a random 50% blipping out one out of every four planes all around the world will lose both pilots and crash with the 50% of the passengers who were not blipped. On every highway half the...