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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8847297" data-attributes="member: 7025508">But do cats and dogs in D&amp;D have common ancestor? Are you also opposed referring cats and dogs in D&amp;D as being different species?It probably is just simplification to cover all sort of &quot;wizard did it&quot; cases and custom lore. But in established settings half-dwarves are not a thing, except in Dark Sun and they explicitly are sterile.Some species are more closely related, some more distantly related. Doesn't really change the utility of the term. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />It does reflect it far more accurately than the other proposed terms.That is unfortunate, but really not improved by alternate terms. The issue with the drow really isn't about semantics.And that's why they should stop doing this. Write the species rules to be flexible so that they can reflect different subgroups.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8847297, member: 7025508"] But do cats and dogs in D&D have common ancestor? Are you also opposed referring cats and dogs in D&D as being different species? It probably is just simplification to cover all sort of "wizard did it" cases and custom lore. But in established settings half-dwarves are not a thing, except in Dark Sun and they explicitly are sterile. Some species are more closely related, some more distantly related. Doesn't really change the utility of the term. 🤷 It does reflect it[I] far more accurately[/I] than the other proposed terms. That is unfortunate, but really not improved by alternate terms. The issue with the drow really isn't about semantics. And that's why they should stop doing this. Write the species rules to be flexible so that they can reflect different subgroups. [/QUOTE]

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