Only the Lonely: Why We Demand Official Product

[The Mirrorball Man]

This debate has lead me to think that it would actually be interesting to have a D&D setting where Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Gnomes and Half-Orcs don't exist, but the "new" races like Dragonborns, Tabaxi or Tieflings are common.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

This debate has lead me to think that it would actually be interesting to have a D&D setting where Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Gnomes and Half-Orcs don't exist, but the "new" races like Dragonborns, Tabaxi or Tieflings are common.

call it Grognardica

 

[Zardnaar]

call it Grognardica

Or Clowncartopia.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

Or Clowncartopia.

it's not a clown car because it's not stuffed with things, it's efficient with it's races.

and besides, it's better, and more funny, to make fun of old people who refuse to change.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Or people hardly look twice at them because they're used to seeing all sorts of non-human creatures (not just Dragonborn in particular). :/

And to the uneducated they are pretty much indistinguishable from more common reptilian races such as lizardfolk.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This debate has lead me to think that it would actually be interesting to have a D&D setting where Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Gnomes and Half-Orcs don't exist, but the "new" races like Dragonborns, Tabaxi or Tieflings are common.

We have been seriously considering (under the influence of the Dark Crystal) a campaign setting with no humans.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

We have been seriously considering (under the influence of the Dark Crystal) a campaign setting with no humans.

That's interesting too, but a different kind of interesting. In a campaign with humans but none of the vanilla races, the "other" has the potential to become strange and interesting again, instead of being business as usual.

 

[hawkeyefan]

This debate has lead me to think that it would actually be interesting to have a D&D setting where Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Gnomes and Half-Orcs don't exist, but the "new" races like Dragonborns, Tabaxi or Tieflings are common.

It’d at least be less cliche. None of those races are so strongly connected to an archetype that there’s a default expectation on how they behave.

Do elves and dwarves really seem all that different than humans to anyone anymore? Are they so different from people? The newer races at least seem to offer a little more on that front. They seem genuinely more different than humans.

I mean, for the amount of difference that comes up in play, we should just rename elves and dwarves Dexlings and Conlings.

Oh, he’s gruff and he has a Scottish accent! What fun!!

 

[prabe]

Oh, he’s gruff and he has a Scottish accent! What fun!!

In my head at least, the dwarves on my world sound more like Minnesota or North Dakota than Scotland.

 

[lowkey13]

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