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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8875374" data-attributes="member: 6790260">In my purely-hypothetical Nth Edition Not!D&D, this would be literally true. Genasi, tieflings, and aasimar are classified as "Planeborn" or "Pithfolk." People where some portion of their essence is bonded to, or arising from, another plane of existence: their "pith" (substance) is different. You'd have Elemental, Celestial, Infernal, and Umbral subgroups,* each with a "standard" form (e.g. a humanoid with fire for hair is a really common expectation for Elemental Planeborn, aka Fire Genasi) and variant options for folks who want alternatives. If I had creative control, that's how almost all my races (species, ancestries, whatever you want to call them) would work. There would be one "simplified" option where all the choices are made for you and you just pick up and go, published in a "Starter D&D"-type book where everything is streamlined to the max, because some people just...really want that. And then there would be the full books, which offer more options for folks wanting to sink their teeth into that.*Every race/species/whatever except human would have 4 subgroups. Human would only have 3, because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't come up with a fourth that was thematically worthwhile, avoided any form of offensive tropes, and mechanically hefty enough to merit being an actual subgroup. The three human subgroups are Standard (aka Globetrotter if you want a thematic name), Dual-Blooded, and Starbound (elan/slan, humans Weirded™ by living in deep space, away from planetary bodies.) Dual-Blooded would be a catch-all for all sorts of things, with half-orc and half-elf being the two pre-figured options. Supplements could support Dual-Blooded that are human + almost anything else, and possibly allow for pairs that aren't human (e.g. dwarf + elf, orc + gnome, whatever.)</blockquote>

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