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Currently, the page notes "Note: Baldur's Gate 3 does not use the term "race" the way it's used in common English. Races in the game are more akin to species.". That is not objective data for a Wiki. It is objectively false in the Forgotten Realms: '''these Humanoid races can reproduce between each other''', including Elf/Orc for example, you name it (it is not as clear for Halfings and Gnomes though). Dwarf/Human or Dwarf/Orc is also possible, though some older books made them sterile, they work in the Forgotten Realms. '''Whereas species generally do not reproduce well together and have less "mixity"'''. | Currently, the page notes "Note: Baldur's Gate 3 does not use the term "race" the way it's used in common English. Races in the game are more akin to species.". That is not objective data for a Wiki. It is objectively false in the Forgotten Realms: '''these Humanoid races can reproduce between each other''', including Elf/Orc for example, you name it (it is not as clear for Halfings and Gnomes though). Dwarf/Human or Dwarf/Orc is also possible, though some older books made them sterile, they work in the Forgotten Realms ([https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-dwarf source]). '''Whereas species generally do not reproduce well together and have less "mixity"'''. | ||
The company ''Wizard of the Coast'' switched to the term species because the term race is loaded with real-life issues. '''Calling them species is oddly not a progress nor better''' at all: not only is reproduction sometimes impossible between species, or generate children who cannot reproduce, but having only "pure" Elves, in reaction to the fact that the term "half-Elf" can be pejorative, is ironically not a progress. WotC flushed mixed origins from the 2024: how is that a progress? Valuing mixed heritages would be the true progressive approach! The solution to avoid the term is well known from many RPG games, who instead write heritages, mixed heritages, origins, etc. | The company ''Wizard of the Coast'' switched to the term species because the term race is loaded with real-life issues. '''Calling them species is oddly not a progress nor better''' at all: not only is reproduction sometimes impossible between species, or generate children who cannot reproduce, but having only "pure" Elves, in reaction to the fact that the term "half-Elf" can be pejorative, is ironically not a progress. WotC flushed mixed origins from the 2024: how is that a progress? Valuing mixed heritages would be the true progressive approach! The solution to avoid the term is well known from many RPG games, who instead write heritages, mixed heritages, origins, etc. | ||