D&D (2024) One D&D Permanently Removes The Term 'Race'

In line with many other tabletop roleplaying games, such as Pathfinder or Level Up, One D&D is removing the term 'race'. Where Pathfinder uses 'Ancestry' and Level Up uses 'Heritage', One D&D will be using 'Species'.

Moving On From 'Race' in the 2024 Core Rulebooks

We understand "race" is a problematic term that has had prejudiced links between real world people and the fantasy peoples of D&D worlds.

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In a blog post, WotC announced that "We have made the decision to move on from using the term "race" everywhere in One D&D, and we do not intend to return to that term."

 

[Minigiant]

Ick.
Too Sci-Fi
I prefer Heritage

(It's up BTW)

 

[billd91]

Species. It's about time.

 

[Sacrosanct]

About time. Even OSR folks like me have started removing it. This from Chromatic Dungeons:

 

[Weiley31]

Well, I'm still using the term race. I'm too ingrained to it through my years of playing video game rpgs as a kid, 3.0/3.5 and what not.

I would've preferred the term Heritage to be quite honest though.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

As long-time fan of alliteration, I, for one, look forward to the advent of the specious speciesist arguments!

 

[Marandahir]

Excellent. Most excellent.

Though I'd prefer Lineage as that's already in the game (Custom Lineage in Tasha's, Dark Lineage in Van Richten's).

 

[payn]

As long-time fan of alliteration, I, for one, look forward to the advent of the specious speciesist arguments!

 

[Grantypants]

It's good to see "race" gone, but the linguist in me wishes they'd chosen a replacement word with an adjective form. For example, the traits your PC gets from their ancestry would be their ancestral traits, and so on. There's not a corresponding word for species, unfortunately.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Excellent. Most excellent.

Though I'd prefer Lineage as that's already in the game (Custom Lineage in Tasha's, Dark Lineage in Van Richten's).

My understanding is that lineage is different than race/species.

In other words, you can have a lineage (like a dhampir) that was of different races/species. It's kind of confusing in its implementation, but it's supposed to be a slightly different concept. IIRC.