the true measure of whether someone's old enough to have played AD&D is not their take on the word "race" and whether those player character options include newer groups like tieflings or dragonborn. It's whether they can rattle off different types of polearm.
Is "sweet fuck I had better things to do with my gaming time than to select from sixty permutations of 'glaive' 'arm' 'pole' and 'guis'" an acceptable answer?
also yeah "race" sure is the word we used back then and it sure has not aged well in the ensuing forty years
@anthracite the really aggravating thing is that it's a short, succinct word, it's very hard for me to swap out for "heritage" or "ancestry" - anything's a better alternative.
I worked on one game that used "Nature" and "Nurture", but apparently those terms aren't in the public discourse any more?
@Leucrotta
yyyyep
"line" maybe? there's gotta be a single-syllable word that works to sum up this stuff