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The head of Candlekeep is Janusi - a human. There is a dragonborn First Reader, that's true. Doesn't actually ever appear in any of...

Let's be honest here. Dragonborn and Tieflings were noted as "rare" in the 5.0 PHB because they had 4e cooties. It had ZERO to do with...

And yet, every D&D setting makes PHB species choices common. Funny that.

What makes you think a PHB race is rare? But... hang on... I'm confused. Dragonborn are rare, but have towns where ever I feel the...

For me? I would say that the PHB races are the bare minimum. I wouldn't worry too much about all those other races - there has to be a...

How many of those countries list a Dragonborn or Tiefling or Goliath population?

No. I really, really can't. What dragonborn community is within a hundred miles of Phandelver? Saltmarsh? The Free City of Greyhawk...

Eberron would like to have a word with you. Hell, Tolkien would like to have a word with you. Elves, dwarves, orcs, men, hobbits...

Well, there's 25000 people in Neverwinter alone and that's only a few days travel from Phandelver. 🤷 Leilon is 3000 and that's about...

Are they forbidden from being from the Ten Towns? Is it absolutely carved in stone that they MUST be from parts unknown? That they...

Yup. They are. One of the PC's has ties to the Cassalantar family in Waterdeep. Another is tied to the Gralhund family. One PC has...

Again, to be absolutely clear, not a single person is arguing that any of this NEEDS to be true. What we want is that it CAN be true...

I think he wants the abilty to choose both I am a Dragonborn from a far-away location that no onehere is likely to know about anyway...

That's .... not true at all. Phandelver - you can certainly be FROM Phandelver or any of the nearby towns or Neverwinter if you chose...

Having played online for a long time, yeah, it's not unreasonable. I used to be a "hey, you want to play? Come on in?" kind of host...