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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9847063" data-attributes="member: 6776166">There's a reason there are specific words for, say, the mixed descendants of Spanish colonists and native Americans (Mestizo), or Dutch colonists and Indonesians (Indo), but there aren't well-known terms (or accompanying cultures) for most other specific permutations of ethnic or racial mixing. I went to high school with a woman of Tibetan and Ashkenazi descent; she is no more or less mixed race than I am, nor any more or less mixed race than Barack Obama or Eddie van Halen, but there aren't a lot of Tibetan-Askhenazi people out there and their experiences have not coalesced into a narrative that one can build a collective identity on, only her individual experience.By analogy, there are a lot of people of mixed elf and human parentage, or orc and human parentage, across the D&D multiverse for a variety of cultural, economic, ecologic or technological reasons, enough so that there are common beliefs, stereotypes, narratives, tropes and assumptions referring to these people; they can be placed in a group. That doesn't mean that there aren't people of mixed goblin and goliath heritage out there; but there's no collective identity for them in the same way that there are half-elves or half-orcs.If I had my druthers, I would say that we should get a "Complete Book of Humanoids part 2" that gives us statblocks for people who descend from, at the very least, all of the races that were called "Common" in the 2014 PHB (which correlates mostly historically to the "demihuman" tag of earlier editions, all of whom appear at first glance to be mammals and hominids, as opposed to the more explicitly magical aasimar or semi-reptilian dragonborn). Port the Khoravar over as a half-elf, half-human, give us half-orc, half-human stats, come up with a better name than "Mul" for a half-dwarf, half-human, but don't stop there. Stat up a half-elf half-gnome, a half-gnome half-dwarf, etc. I'd slap down $25 for DnDbeyond DLC of punnet squares.</blockquote>

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