Question: So, they're called Races, does that mean that technically all the fantasy creatures are the same species but different races?
Question: So, they're called Races...
Chase Brown
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Adrian White
Do you actually care or is this simply your new /pol/ racism bait?
Seriously, do you care?
Jaxson Peterson
That would be an ecumenical matter
Ethan Powell
It would certainly help to explain all the half-breeds that pop up.
Jaxon Ward
No.
Race is just a convenient colloquial term that extends to other, various, sapient species. You can't hold the term 'Race' to the same standard in a world with over 12 civilization building species vs our own where only one species -Humans- has done anything of substance.
It's the same deal as how cannibalism is often expanded upon to describe any sort of sapient person that eats other 'people' and not just restricted to species.
Robert Evans
I do actually. In antiquity Greek philosophers contributed 'race' to a matter of climate, that different temperatures and topographies changed the attributed for humans. Basically they assigned everyone their own stats, Greeks get +to Cha, Egyptians get +to Int, Celts get +Con, that sort of thing.
So like in fantasy terms, are the different races like the 'races' from antiquity where they're all the same species but different environmental factors, Including magic, have made them change?
James Jackson
No, they aren't. This
Blake Wood
You have autism
Jeremiah Martinez
no, it means they all have cars and try to be faster than each other
Matthew Foster
Biologically if members of different races can breed and produce fertile offspring (which is usually the case) they're considered the same species. So yeah.