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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9349552" data-attributes="member: 66357">And yet they reverted the high elf => eladrin change, to the point of us now having versions of both that are quite distinct from one another... ShrugsThe way I see it, changing warforged to, for the sake of argument, "ironforged" would be equivalent to changing tiefling to something like "fiendling". Sure, it would get the idea of what they are across just as well as, if not better than, the existing name, but the old names have years, nay decades, of brand recognition and player investment.If the name's a problem in specific contexts, give an alternate to use for those contexts, but there's no reason that alternate has to take primacy, in my view, unless the old name has such extensive issues that it needs to be fully retired.Heck, in the process of de-OGL-ifying Pathfinder 2e, tieflings and aasimar (and basically every other "outer" planetouched heritage) were unified under the name "nephilim", and despite understanding perfectly well why the change was made and it being an entirely separate game system/setting/cosmology, I still have a gut instinct to default to using the names tiefling and aasimar that is nigh impossible to overcome.</blockquote>