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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 1777185" data-attributes="member: 1241">here's my take.  yes, cannibalism is strictly defined as eating something of your own type. and, in fact, i would leave it at that.however, in the real world, the only sentient race is the human race.  there are no other speaking, intelligent creatures out there, so we have far less of a social taboo against eating other living creatures in most cultures.i would say, as an add-on to cannibalism, that eating anything with an Int score of say 3 or higher as a racial average (as in the MM) should be a no-no to good-aligned creatures.  you might want to set that higher if you as the DM don't mind people eating, say, a griffon or something.  but definitely, anything with a demonstrable intelligence should be off limits.however, you could go the route of Dark Sun halflings who eat other humanoid races and don't consider themselves cannibals because they don't eat other halflings.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>