D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games


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Not from an official product, but my D&D campaigns just uses "Peoples" to refer to the different groups and "Lineage" to refer to a specific person's ancestry.

So you might say "The Dwarven people" or "My Dwarven lineage."

I just surprised that no games that I know of has gone with the very simple "Peoples."
 


Not from an official product, but my D&D campaigns just uses "Peoples" to refer to the different groups and "Lineage" to refer to a specific person's ancestry.

So you might say "The Dwarven people" or "My Dwarven lineage."

I just surprised that no games that I know of has gone with the very simple "Peoples."
I don't like the term "species" for fantasy settings (especially when a number of species have fertile offspring, like humans/elves, humans/orcs, and humans and everything else). "Peoples" is so good, I don't know why I never thought of it!
 




By itself, peoples sounds okay. However, it sounds a bit odd when you pair it up with elf, dwarf, etc. The Elven Peoples, the dwarven peoples. It has to be a word that plays well off the tongue like ancestry or heritage.

Species fits better in a science fiction/science fantasy setting.
why is "Everel is of the Elven Ancestry" better than "Everel is of the Elven Peoples"?
is it just personal preference on euphony?
 

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