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There's a lot of little things that D&D invented and have quietly become standard gaming tropes, and I think that slightly incorrect usage of "race" might be on

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > I think that slightly incorrect usage of "race" might be one of them. D&D "race" isn't exactly like "race" in the real world, but I don't think its an incorrect use of the term so much as deliberate, context-specific jargon because there is no existing readily recognized term that exactly captures D&D race (which isn't species -- though some D&D races are also distinct species from some or all of the other D&D races -- since there are D&D races which both can produce fertile offspring and do voluntarily produce offspring together) and "race" is the nearest readily recognized term. > Other games have both "races" and cultures, which makes things a bit clearer. D&D has both races and cultures (and in some settings in some versions of the rules, the latter also can have game mechanical effects), though only the former is somewhat "generic" across different game worlds, and the latter is gameworld specific.