Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-122657-20140616220806

Hello to all,

It has been suggested by a trio of members (Undoniel, WarBlade, and Mrkermit) that our AlienRace section is too limiting for the needs of categorizing what a being really is. (See the Character template talk page and this thread).

The suggestion is to change the field from AlienRace to Species/Race/Type.

The differences between species and races are defined as:

Species are members of the same category of organisms that can reproduce viable offspring. Viable offspring would be ones that can reproduce as well. Technically horses and donkey can create offspring..(mule)...but mules are sterile so not viable therefore donkeys and horses are a different species.

Race refers to variations of DNA within the species that are normal, and necessary for evolution and a healthy population.

I'd like to go through and list tricky examples of where these fields would work better/worse before we ultimately decide to change them. 