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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9111463" data-attributes="member: 58172">It is fine when a character has parents who belong to different species. Likewise, it is fine when there is a community who descends from mixed ancestry.The "racist" part is when a "half-breed" is considered as if a separate "race", somehow no longer a member of the races of ones parents.The solution is to mention the Human-Elf and other multispecies in a context that shows they are still members of their parental species. So a Human-Elf is still a Human and is still an Elf.I take for granted, the Human-Elf and the Human-Orc will be in the 2024 Players Handbook but not as separate species. They will appear in a section about characters who descend from multiple species.Not sure what is going on where Phandelver changes an NPC Half-Elf into a Drow. Probably, the adventure designers know from the playtests that "Half-Elf" is no longer considered its own race, but doesnt yet have official info for how to describe a multispecies character.Meanwhile, there is an effort to show the dark-skin Drow is part of normal society without being inherently Evil. So in this case, an NPC that is a "Half-Drow" is listed as if a full Drow. Uncertain about "Half" and positive about "Drow".Probably, when the multispecies descriptions become official, this NPC will again list as a Human-Drow.</blockquote>