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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8439056" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Honestly, I find all these debates annoying in the extreme (especially since the same words are repeated over and over with each new supplement since Tasha, with no valuable addition to the concept). First, all this is mostly food for powergamers who absolutely want to be able to combine the stats increase with the powers that go well with their classes and archetype (whereas people who mostly want to play the game and explore combinations of race and class and other factors did not really have a problem with the racial stat bonus not being perfectly optimised). Second, people who claim that this adresses the race issue in D&D (for those who assume that there is a problem that needs to be solved) do so mostly to propagate their own ideas, because this is only for PCs, the various races (with their description and innate likes and dislikes for other species) still exist extremely strongly in D&D, whether it's in the monster manual or even more strongly in settings (although some setting like Eberron present some of the legacy races like orcs in a different light, they are still exactly like many legacy races in the other settings, with their own prejudices - don't get me wrong, for me, it's part of the fantasy genre so I think it's a good thing, is generates tension and therefore potential drama and action).That being said, for PCs and on the basis that people want to optimise, "lineage" is probably the best term (although ancestry is not too bad either), if you want to produce something that is really unique. That being said, once more, it's powergamer's food, and I would really like to see characters with hybrid ancestry in play, and how they deal with this in terms of racial heritage in a world divided by races as all pubished settings are (and I'd like to see another setting than those to see if it's as flat and boring as I suspect it would be). But I suspect that it's a mostly a non-issue, since they are probably created that way mostly for power purpose anyway...</blockquote>

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