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"Mixing" != "mating". The latter was what I was asking for a citation on. I thought I had downloaded that, but it appears not, and it is too late now. Care to quote the part where it talks about sexual reproduction between gnomes (or was it halflings?) and dragonborn? I am by no means an...

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If the best response you can up with is "you're wrong", then better if it did stop there. Nobody is trying to change your position on anything, except maybe to convince you that you preferences are not superior to other mine or @Micah Sweet's.

Yes they are. I think you know two things of import in this situation: What "edition" means in the context of D&D, and that you should not put too much stock in a large company's marketing spin. Is this really true? It seems unlikely to me, although I think my AL play was pre-2018. "Half...

Thank you for reminding me about that. I was looking for cosmologies a while back and I did not think to check D&Dg. But at least one person had said that it did not feel artificial to them. So by asserting that it did not feel artificial without qualifier, you were at best being rather rude to...

Nobody said it was a "conspiracy". All anyone is saying AFAICT is that it is a new edition, and WotC's saying it isn't does not actually change anything (they said the same about 3.5 at times, and it wasn't true then either). 3.0 => 3.5 was one of the last three, and that was one of the less...

WotC pretending it is not a new edition does not make it not one.

Me too, on both counts (technically I started with 2e, but it was brand new and in something of a transitional phase.)

They are not the same thing, but all other things being equal people with more of the latter will generally have more of the former. Having unpopular preferences is not crime. In around three decades of play with many groups over the years, I can count the gnome PCs I have seen played on one...

Is it your contention that using "species" for categories of created beings might lead more people than currently do to believe that real-world species are also created? Because that was not coming across before, and might be something to be concerned about. I'd like to dismiss it out of hand...

I have strongly disagreed with pretty much everything you have said in this thread, and with hindsight, I have maybe been a little harsh in expressing that. But this OTOH, I completely agree with! With my homebrew setting, every character picks a Culture in addition to their...

If you have anything like resembling real humans (and dogs, etc), who take after their parents but are not identical to them, then you have heredity with random mutation. If you have anything at all which makes it more likely that some creatures will survive to produce viable offspring than...

Apologies for missing that you list your pronouns. That said, you are still using nonsense arguments to try to dress your subjective dislike as objective problems with the term. That you have been using the same arguments for a while makes does not make them any less spurious.

EDIT: On second thoughts, that was probably unwise.

What does Essentials have to do with the price of fish? It was not an edition, .5 or otherwise.

A key word here is "allowed" - lazy'lords get all the press, but you could probably create a Warlord character who never granted attacks. I doubt many people would actually make a Warlord like that, but I'd guess most would chart a middle course. I know the Warlord player in my group did. I...

"Species" itself works fine as an adjective form. "Species traits" etc. Maybe in you campaign, but that is not universally true. And even if it was, it would still be irrelevant, because you are focusing on one highly technical (and probably slightly outdated) sense of the word "species", when...

You can keep saying that, but it won't make it any more true. True, but irrelevant. The word species predates "real-world taxonomy" as it is currently understood by centuries. And real-world taxonomies only do not cover things like shardminds and gibbering mouthers because they do not exist. If...

Exactly, so even if shambling mound/fire elemental hybrids exist, that says nothing about whether fire elementals and shambling mounds are separate species (even if the "can produce ofspring" was an accurate definition of species, which it isn't). This is true, but in this case while the word...

It is exactly that thing. This is the issue with all the terms on the list except species; they are jargon. Whereas species is what they are in plain English, which makes it the clear winner IMNSHO. Now I have no problem with jargon, but 5e is supposed to be the natural language edition....