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<blockquote data-quote="The Myopic Sniper" data-source="post: 8756868" data-attributes="member: 55013">While personally I think that the term race as used in D&amp;D is actually probably fine with what D&amp;D ancestries represent, if they are going to end up taking tons of criticism, explaining, defending and possibly changing it in future printings based on feedback, it is far easier to take the heat and change the term now. Although it could simply be that they don't want an influx of people complaining in playtest surveys about &quot;wokeness gone mad&quot; with them dropping the term &quot;race&quot; and when the 2024 actual publication comes out it will use a term like &quot;Ancestry,&quot; &quot;Heritage&quot; or the like. They may have a term they are privately happy with, but don't want to cloud the playtest feedback with too much focus put on that change. The fact that they didn't use &quot;race&quot; in the survey could be indicative of that. I know some people have theorized that the previous backtrack on the term &quot;race&quot; has to do with its mechanical status in the OGL/SRD,&nbsp; I have no clue personally about that though. I am kind of dubious on that one, WOTC has amazing legal staff at its disposal. I find it hard to believe that the OGL/SRD are written in such a way that would leave them unable to change the term race in the game. That seems to be a popular argument though so maybe there is some validity to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Myopic Sniper, post: 8756868, member: 55013"] While personally I think that the term race as used in D&D is actually probably fine with what D&D ancestries represent, if they are going to end up taking tons of criticism, explaining, defending and possibly changing it in future printings based on feedback, it is far easier to take the heat and change the term now. Although it could simply be that they don't want an influx of people complaining in playtest surveys about "wokeness gone mad" with them dropping the term "race" and when the 2024 actual publication comes out it will use a term like "Ancestry," "Heritage" or the like. They may have a term they are privately happy with, but don't want to cloud the playtest feedback with too much focus put on that change. The fact that they didn't use "race" in the survey could be indicative of that. I know some people have theorized that the previous backtrack on the term "race" has to do with its mechanical status in the OGL/SRD, I have no clue personally about that though. I am kind of dubious on that one, WOTC has amazing legal staff at its disposal. I find it hard to believe that the OGL/SRD are written in such a way that would leave them unable to change the term race in the game. That seems to be a popular argument though so maybe there is some validity to it. [/QUOTE]

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