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

[Aldarc]

The former. The ones which deliberately moved away from the word. I have a thesaurus, so I can generate a list of the latter easily enough.

Ancestry

• Shadowdark by Kelsey Dionne
• Bugbear and Borderlands by @Sacrosanct
• Shadow of the Demon Lord and Shadow of the Weird Wizard by Rob Schwalb

Kindred
- Dolmenwood by Necrotic Gnome

 

[Teemu]

Forbidden Lands (2018) also uses "kin".

Wait I missed the initial parameter. I'm not sure if the original Swedish version of the game used race or another term.

 

[Morrus]

Forbidden Lands (2018) also uses "kin".

Did it used to use ‘race’?

 

[el-remmen]

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."

 

[Quickleaf]

Dolmenwood uses "Kindred."

 

[Xeviat]

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!

 

[jayoungr]

Isn't there some game or other that uses "folk"?

 

[Tonguez]

ICRPG - Bioform

seen a couple of games use Bioform - Masters of Umdaar (FATE) does, mainly sci-fi games

 

[Corinnguard]

"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.

 

[Tonguez]

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?