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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 8852218" data-attributes="member: 7034710">species is my preferred jargon because it's just accurate to what it's meant to be identifying, which is your overarching biology(personally i think culture should be separated into a different build choice so that we have Species, Culture, Background and Class but that's a different matter), ancestry just feels too disconnected, if you're an elf sure you might have a tiefling or a human or two in your family tree somewhere but your biology is still primarily that of an elf, an elf with minor touches of human and tiefling ancestry but your species is still elf, or if one parent was a halfling you're a half-elf-half-halfling.tangentially part of why i dislike ancestry as a descriptor is that the new cross-species build mechanics have no nuance, it's an all-or-nothing, one-or-the-other situation except for the aesthtics, you can't have a child of an elf and a tiefling with trance and fire resistance, or a variant skill because 'my great great great grandmother was a human and all her bloodline was a little more versatile than the rest of the clan'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 8852218, member: 7034710"] species is my preferred jargon because it's just accurate to what it's meant to be identifying, which is your overarching biology(personally i think culture should be separated into a different build choice so that we have Species, Culture, Background and Class but that's a different matter), ancestry just feels too disconnected, if you're an elf sure you might have a tiefling or a human or two in your family tree somewhere but your biology is still primarily that of [I]an elf[/I], an elf with minor touches of human and tiefling ancestry but your [I]species[/I] is still elf, or if one parent was a halfling you're a half-elf-half-halfling. tangentially part of why i dislike ancestry as a descriptor is that the new cross-species build mechanics have no nuance, it's an all-or-nothing, one-or-the-other situation except for the aesthtics, you can't have a child of an elf and a tiefling with trance and fire resistance, or a variant skill because 'my great great great grandmother was a human and all her bloodline was a little more versatile than the rest of the clan' [/QUOTE]

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