Fanbase, you decide. Be mature about this. This is not the time to make anyone who plays this game feel awful because they disagree. Just let the votes speak for themselves. 

i just want someone to tell the staff that "We know this is an important change to D&D—one that requires an open conversation with our community." and "We have made the decision to move on from using the term "race" everywhere in One D&D, and we do not intend to return to that term." are mutually exclusive statements. Otherwise, it's not a discussion; it's a decree. 

This is the kind of thing that happens when you want to shove in as many buzzwords as possible without actually caring about what they mean. 

Oh, and no actual D&D players conflate D&D races with human ethnicities. It would be real cool if the staff would stop pretending that's a thing. 

The term Species feels generic.  my problem with D&D one, it feels like they are making D&D too generic and homogenized. It feels sterile. 

Nothing more then creating a problem where there was not one.  A bandwagon change that does nothing but allow the ones that changed it to pat themselves on the back saying, "We did good, yes?  Look at what we did."  Trying to fix something that was never broken.  D&D designers were always going to make changes that make no reasonable sense and if you've played D&D you have ran across such changes over the years.  This is just another one in a list that is easily ignored even if they CAP and bold "species" in every book.  It will always be race.

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The term Species feels generic.  my problem with D&D one, it feels like they are making D&D too generic and homogenized. It feels sterile. 

Can you explain why ‘species’ is generic but ‘race’ is not? Can you also explain what connotations the term ‘race’ has that are so important to you that the game feels reduced with its removal? 

This is what happens when an extremely small but vocal minority forces companies to do stupid things.   We lost demons and devils for 20 years for the exact same reason.  

The race of Men still exists in LOTR, and will in my game as well. 

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This is what happens when an extremely small but vocal minority forces companies to do stupid things.   We lost demons and devils for 20 years for the exact same reason.  

The race of Men still exists in LOTR, and will in my game as well. 

But you represent the majority of D&D players? 

Species is definitely better than race.

However it's also too specific and doesn't cover the broad variation in D&D.

Personally I prefer "taxon" or "taxonomy".

"taxon, (pl. taxa), n.

A taxonomic unit, whether named or not: i.e. a population, or group of populations of organisms which are usually inferred to be phylogenetically related and which have characters in common which differentiate (q.v.) the unit (e.g. a geographic population, a genus, a family, an order) from other such units. A taxon encompasses all included taxa of lower rank (q.v.) and individual organisms. [...]

This subforum is for feedback on D&D Beyond, not the One D&D playtest. If you wish to provide feedback on the game terminology improvements to make the game more inclusive and accessible, you should do so via the feedback survey for the Cleric and Species UA document when it releases.

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