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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8441546" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Well I prefer getting rid of subraces. It saved a few lines here or there, while making it often necessary to cross-reference between a PHB race and a non-PHB subrace.You are interpolating in a lot here, based I would assume on a presumption that there has been more consistency in the stance over the last several relevant releases than I think there necessarily is. The most recent release, Fizban's, ignores the concept of &quot;lineages&quot; in favor of players choosing from &quot;the human race or one of the game's fantastical races&quot;. I see no mention of lineage here. My reading would be that, at this particular moment, they are not emphasizing &quot;lineages&quot; over races. I find it doubtful that they've really settled everything in as neat a scheme as you propose. I think if WotC actually felt committed to a clear scheme they were happy with they'd make a public announcement laying out the scheme. Instead I think they are playing with a variety of approaches over the last year or so of releases and haven't really committed to a finalThey seem to have definitely settled on floating ability score boosts. At the moment they are playing with writing up subraces as races, though this may partly have to do with this particular release where, were they to use a race-subrace scheme people would incorrectly think they were supposed to attach the subraces to the PHB Dragonborn race. They also did it in an Unearthed Arcana for the Astral Elf, but that may have to do with everything else in the document being a race rather than a subrace and it being easier to read written as a complete race. Once again I hope they do dump subraces, as I think they just made for unnecessary cross-referencing and makes it harder to evolve approaches to races over the course of an edition, but I won't be shocked if they show up again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8441546, member: 6988941"] Well I prefer getting rid of subraces. It saved a few lines here or there, while making it often necessary to cross-reference between a PHB race and a non-PHB subrace. You are interpolating in a lot here, based I would assume on a presumption that there has been more consistency in the stance over the last several relevant releases than I think there necessarily is. The most recent release, Fizban's, ignores the concept of "lineages" in favor of players choosing from "the human race or one of the game's fantastical races". I see no mention of lineage here. My reading would be that, at this particular moment, they are not emphasizing "lineages" over races. I find it doubtful that they've really settled everything in as neat a scheme as you propose. I think if WotC actually felt committed to a clear scheme they were happy with they'd make a public announcement laying out the scheme. Instead I think they are playing with a variety of approaches over the last year or so of releases and haven't really committed to a final They seem to have definitely settled on floating ability score boosts. At the moment they are playing with writing up subraces as races, though this may partly have to do with this particular release where, were they to use a race-subrace scheme people would incorrectly think they were supposed to attach the subraces to the PHB Dragonborn race. They also did it in an Unearthed Arcana for the Astral Elf, but that may have to do with everything else in the document being a race rather than a subrace and it being easier to read written as a complete race. Once again I hope they do dump subraces, as I think they just made for unnecessary cross-referencing and makes it harder to evolve approaches to races over the course of an edition, but I won't be shocked if they show up again. [/QUOTE]

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