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<blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 7072732" data-attributes="member: 771"><p>Fair question. I just returned to D&D after a 8-9 year break. I played 3.5e, didn't like the look of 4e from what I heard and switched to Pathfinder for a couple of years, then dropped away from RPGs entirely in 2010 when my son was born due to lack of time. I just got sucked back in when my nephews picked up a Starter Set and wanted help getting a game up and running. While I think tielfings/genasi may have been allowed as PC races in some campaigns back then via optional books, I don't think they appeared as P.C. races in the core books in 3e or earlier. I missed 4e entirely, never played it, don't own a single book...so they all seem newer to me.</p><p></p><p>Currently, I am getting ready to run Storm King's Thunder, and while tieflings have a place in the Realms' history, they strike me as having more of a minor villain role than one of a major fantasy races like humans, elves, dwarves, etc. Likewise, genasi have been fitted into Calimshan and dragonborn in the east somewhere, but both feel like tack ons rather than good fits for the Sword Coast, in my humble opinion, and I would think the same would probably hold true for Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Mystara and most of the other classic settings.</p><p></p><p>Not judging anyone else's game mind you, to each their own, but I was just curious if I was alone in feeling this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davelozzi, post: 7072732, member: 771"] Fair question. I just returned to D&D after a 8-9 year break. I played 3.5e, didn't like the look of 4e from what I heard and switched to Pathfinder for a couple of years, then dropped away from RPGs entirely in 2010 when my son was born due to lack of time. I just got sucked back in when my nephews picked up a Starter Set and wanted help getting a game up and running. While I think tielfings/genasi may have been allowed as PC races in some campaigns back then via optional books, I don't think they appeared as P.C. races in the core books in 3e or earlier. I missed 4e entirely, never played it, don't own a single book...so they all seem newer to me. Currently, I am getting ready to run Storm King's Thunder, and while tieflings have a place in the Realms' history, they strike me as having more of a minor villain role than one of a major fantasy races like humans, elves, dwarves, etc. Likewise, genasi have been fitted into Calimshan and dragonborn in the east somewhere, but both feel like tack ons rather than good fits for the Sword Coast, in my humble opinion, and I would think the same would probably hold true for Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Mystara and most of the other classic settings. Not judging anyone else's game mind you, to each their own, but I was just curious if I was alone in feeling this way. [/QUOTE]
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