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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3785355" data-attributes="member: 710">If Half Elves and Half Orcs (and Half-Klingons) were unable to procreate, your comparison with the Mule would be precise and correct. Otherwise, this is exactly the distinction line used today.So yes, actually, scientifically speaking, Klingons, Humans, Vulcans or Romulans are all actually just one species. There was a Startrek TNG epsiode that showed that they actually had a common "creator" I forget the English name for species) that implanted its DNA on many worlds across the Milky Way, resulting in the various humanoids (though that wouldn't automatically make them of the same species). As far as I know there are known examples of creatures evolving parallel on Earth that in the end could procreate off-spring capable of procreation itself. I guess it's statistically highly unlikely, but not absolutely impossible.All that said, D&D is fantasy, so it's not really that important whether the terms are scientifically correct, the question is, what do the terms invoke? If there is a real concern that "race" means that people would think of African, Asian or Caucasian and would be puzzled when they see that it actually refers to fantasy races, well, then a new word might be necessary. But honestly, I don't think that it could work. There are no fantasy races in our world, therefor most terms would also have other, misleading connotations. And it's not as if the Race Chapter will cover 150 pages and only at the end the confused reader will learn that the term "race" actually refers to Elves, Dwarves or Humans... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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