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It works for real-world situations, but it doesn't translate well to game terms. The tricky thing is that in the real world, we're talking about different subgroups of humans, while in a fantasy setting, the groups we're trying to describe are not all humans. Depending on the setting, they...

"People" and "folk" are not too far off, though sometimes awkward because "people" is in casual speech interchangeable with "humans." But "heritage" doesn't work for me. I'm too used to it referring to the historical background of a single family and typically referring to their station in...

I don't disagree with your historical assessment. However, there was a sizeable span of time when people were using it both in the "people of a region" sense and in the "group delineated by skin color and/or eye shape" sense. During that time, which lasted past the midpoint of the twentieth...

To be honest, if we were living in a fantasy setting, we might well use the word "race" because it wouldn't have the same political connotations as it does today. (See my earlier post about how the meaning of the word used to be a lot more flexible than it has become in current usage.)

Turns out I already own it but had not gotten around to reading it! :ROFLMAO: Well, now I have something to check out next time I have a bit of downtime.

The word "race" used to be a lot more elastic than the way it's used today: it could be as big as "species" or as small as "ethnic group." The original D&D books used the word in this older sense. Frankly (and unfortunately), I don't think any of the replacement terms fills exactly the same niche.

And was already "converted" to 5E, more or less, since it was written for the playtest. And where does one find this awesome adventure? :D

I hope someone will go to this panel and report on it for those of us who can't make it to GenCon this year.

Isn't there some game or other that uses "folk"?

I don't like PCs killing gods, personally--I feel that it makes the deities lose their mystique. However, I did run the last several segments of Scales of War (converted to 5E) as a sequel to Tyranny of Dragons. I changed the story a bit so that Bahamut was only mostly dead and Tiamat was in the...

I didn't know about this supplement, so thanks for the review. The life path tables in Xanathar's are quite possibly my favorite character creation tool, so I'll be giving this a look as well.

Buddy, I'm three years older than you. I also lived the experience by spending the 1970s and 1980s haunting the fantasy section of my local library, and I know the names that were represented there. There were loads of female names on those shelves among the prominent authors. I named eight off...

I actually like them all, but #2 is particularly eye-catching.

Okay, I appreciate your laying it out clearly for me. And maybe you'll be glad to know that I actually don't see things the way you describe them. Let me see if I can lay it out in a way that makes sense, I'm going to go back to the numerical version we were using upthread rather than using the...

I don't consider a tangent to be that. I consider it to be a related side path that may be wandered down in parallel with the main topic (since nothing on a message board prevents us from having multiple conversations at once) and may even cross-pollinate ideas with the main topic. You...

Then I think we're probably just quibbling over the definition of "outlier." My definition is having an opinion so far from the mainstream that you can't express it without suffering serious social and/or business repercussions. I do not consider arguments from those with opposing opinions to be...

One other thing I wanted to zero in on in your previous message: Not "other angles to consider his writing from." Other potential discussions about his opinions that are tangential to, and do not interfere with, passing moral judgment on his statements. Yes! Some other people in the 70s...

I'm going to go paragraph by paragraph to avoid snipping statements. It wasn't intended to be about Gygax specifically. My mind was on the 1970s when I typed that he wasn't an outlier, which I do believe. It seems really obvious to me that some things could be said in those days without the...

Meaning he didn't think about his phrasing much because there was no reason to. YES. That is exactly what I'm saying. We are on the same page.

One thread of mainstream opinion that was in opposition to others. Do you think he was an outlier for the 1970s? How is it irrelevant to the point that there were multiple viewpoints in dialogue throughout the 1970s? It doesn't. What do you need me to say in order for you to believe that me...