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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9706840" data-attributes="member: 2209">I think this is an area where individual experiences vary. I do not really see people seeing a lot of D&D "touched" races as half-x but as faint bloodline so maybe great grand-dad was an x, more on the level of a different type of sorcerous bloodline. Lorewise Aasimar and Tieflings have always been people with a little outsider blood as opposed to half outsiders in every edition. Half x's have always been their own distinct thing. 1e and 2e had cambions and alu-demons/alu-fiends contrasting with 2e tieflings, 3e had half-fiends contrasting with the distant ancestor tieflings as explicitly laid out in both the core MM and in setting material like the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. 4e had a little lore variation with the tieflings being descended from humans altered by devil pacts.Shifters have been people with some lycanthrope blood and not one parent being a full lycanthrope since they were introduced in 3e Eberron. The first line of their description is that they are sometimes called the weretouched.Half dragons were a core thing from the beginning of the 3.0 MM and srd so they got used a bunch with a number of half dragon people eventually including PC level adjustment options in the 3.5 MM, then late 3.5 Races of the Dragon had dragonborn as people infused with dragon stuff then 4e reinvented dragonborn as their own original natural race as a core PH1 race option and built up in 4e world lore with the fallen Arkhosian empire. This is the one that I can see more being conflated, as half dragons were the way to do dragon people in D&D for a good while then that role being specifically taken by the core PH dragonborn race.</blockquote>

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