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Are the Races of D&D races of Human or seperate Species according to lore?
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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7792679" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>There's a little-known goblinoid race called the Lingob. Close relatives of hobgoblins, they're taller, slimmer and more willowy, a nomadic race who peddle their talents and fighting skills across the lands.</p><p></p><p>They're little known these days because their numbers have greatly diminished. Not through persecution, or war, or plague, but because of the strong mutual attraction that exists between them and humans. Anywhere that humans and lingobs live in close proximity, the population inevitably skews away from purebreds of either species and towards their hybrid offspring.</p><p></p><p>Nobody knows quite why these offspring seem to bear so little in common with either parent, though their tiny stature is often attributed to old goblin heritage, while their more human-like skin tones and features are the main sign of that side of their heritage.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, due to this lack of resemblance, combined with the fact that they breed true with each other but not with either humans or goblinoids, these hybrids are often shunned and ostracised, eventually banding together to form their own communities. So prevalent are these new societies that many have forgotten that these people - known by humanoids as half-lings, and by goblinoids as the rather derogatory term "hob bits" - were ever of mixed heritage, mistaking them for a new race in their own right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7792679, member: 40176"] There's a little-known goblinoid race called the Lingob. Close relatives of hobgoblins, they're taller, slimmer and more willowy, a nomadic race who peddle their talents and fighting skills across the lands. They're little known these days because their numbers have greatly diminished. Not through persecution, or war, or plague, but because of the strong mutual attraction that exists between them and humans. Anywhere that humans and lingobs live in close proximity, the population inevitably skews away from purebreds of either species and towards their hybrid offspring. Nobody knows quite why these offspring seem to bear so little in common with either parent, though their tiny stature is often attributed to old goblin heritage, while their more human-like skin tones and features are the main sign of that side of their heritage. Unfortunately, due to this lack of resemblance, combined with the fact that they breed true with each other but not with either humans or goblinoids, these hybrids are often shunned and ostracised, eventually banding together to form their own communities. So prevalent are these new societies that many have forgotten that these people - known by humanoids as half-lings, and by goblinoids as the rather derogatory term "hob bits" - were ever of mixed heritage, mistaking them for a new race in their own right. [/QUOTE]
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