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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8438846" data-attributes="member: 58172">As far as I can tell, the terms &quot;lineage&quot; and &quot;species&quot; mean the same thing. Probably the designers chose lineage for the D&amp;D technical jargon, because of its flavorful connotation of medieval values about aristocratic pedigree. The connotation of species might have felt too scientific and modern for them. But they reuse the term lineage to mean species anyway.It is worth mentioning, a lineage implies an ability to reproduce offspring. But there can be various methods of reproduction.The dragonborn lineage came into existence by magically transforming an embryonic dragon egg. Since then the dragonborn can reproduce sexually. But they can also reproduce asexually. Fizbans gives a certain Draconic Gift, called Draconic Rebirth, that magically transforms a player character into the dragonborn lineage, thus replacing player character racial features with dragonborn racial features. Thereby, a dragonborn is reproduced asexually.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8438846, member: 58172"] As far as I can tell, the terms "lineage" and "species" mean the same thing. Probably the designers chose lineage for the D&D technical jargon, because of its flavorful connotation of medieval values about aristocratic pedigree. The connotation of species might have felt too scientific and modern for them. But they reuse the term lineage to mean species anyway. It is worth mentioning, a lineage implies an ability to reproduce offspring. But there can be various methods of reproduction. The dragonborn lineage came into existence by magically transforming an embryonic dragon egg. Since then the dragonborn can reproduce sexually. But they can also reproduce asexually. Fizbans gives a certain Draconic Gift, called Draconic Rebirth, that magically transforms a player character into the dragonborn lineage, thus replacing player character racial features with dragonborn racial features. Thereby, a dragonborn is reproduced asexually. [/QUOTE]

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