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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GX.Sigma" data-source="post: 6828828" data-attributes="member: 6690511">Did you miss the other passage I quoted from the PHB? The part where it says to check with your DM because their world might be different from what is described in the book?See, I don't think we can continue this conversation intelligently, because you seem to think this is a bad thing, and I think it's a good thing. If the game was called "Generic Universal Roleplaying System," I'd be inclined to agree with you. But this is Dungeons & Dragons. It's a game that came out in 1974 with elves and dwarves and hobbits. That's the game everyone fell in love with in the first place. I believe every edition has a duty to stay true to that.Not by itself, no. But they also wanted the flavor to be more similar to old editions, and that clearly does justify doing exactly that. They tried making an edition where Tieflings and Dragonborn were on the same level as the classic races. It didn't do very well. They got feedback that people didn't like it. They took the feedback to heart. They made a new edition where there was a separation. It did very well. It seems clear to me that they made the right decision.</blockquote>