Originally Posted by CJMPinger
Originally Posted by Ankou
WotC is actually phasing out the word "race" as well. I guess they don't want anyone get reminded of any painful reality in their fantasy games.

Tbh, I don't really uh feel their replacement word, "Lineages". Lineages makes it sound like everyone is of a royal line or something, while Race evokes ideas of different kinds of people to me.
I don't really mind them trying to replace it to avoid controversy or whatever cause functionally it is the same, but I'd prefer a different word to Lineage.

So much this. Even "Type" (which is basically what "race" means) or "People" would be better. Lineage is something personal, or rather familial. It's not something you share with even your own people.

Well in the case of fantasy races that literally descend from one god or person it might have relevancy. But even then they have to change their names to adjective forms or I'd still complain.

Shadow of the Demon Lord uses "Ancestry" which is dumb for the same reason but slightly less so than "Lineage". Words I can think of off the top of my head that I would prefer would be maybe "Kin/Ken" or "Folk".

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