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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9507968" data-attributes="member: 6790260">It's not. That's the point I'm making. It simply is not the same. You can insist it is all you like. That does not make it so.I already did. &quot;Things present in the PHB.&quot; It would be like complaining that a person couldn't be a Sith (species) Jedi in Star Wars, or a Gorn science officer in Star Trek, or a female dwarf warrior in Middle-Earth, etc. Gorn exist in Star Trek. Worf and Nog prove that it is perfectly possible for non-member species to join Starfleet and become respected officers at prestigious appointments. (The Enterprise-D is, explicitly, the flagship of Starfleet. To be appointed both Security and Operations Officer on the Enterprise is an extremely prestigious thing.) We have good reason to believe it could&nbsp; happen, and no reason to believe it can't happen, even though historically, as far as we're aware, it hasn't happened.Sith are a humanoid species in Star Wars. Most of them learned and practiced the Dark Side of the force, but there's nothing preventing them from practicing the light. Especially if they were found as a child and taken in by the Jedi Order. Nothing prevents it, it's just not represented generally.Female dwarves explicitly exist in Tolkien's work. We get some kinda questionable justifications for why they either don't go out amongst other races or, apparently, aren't distinguishable from male dwarves in the rare cases they do. Nothing prevents it--it's just not represented in the stories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9507968, member: 6790260"] It's not. That's the point I'm making. It simply [I]is not[/I] the same. You can insist it is all you like. That does not make it so. I already did. "Things present in the PHB." It would be like complaining that a person couldn't be a Sith (species) Jedi in Star Wars, or a Gorn science officer in Star Trek, or a female dwarf warrior in Middle-Earth, etc. Gorn exist in Star Trek. Worf and Nog prove that it is perfectly possible for non-member species to join Starfleet and become respected officers at prestigious appointments. (The Enterprise-D is, explicitly, the flagship of Starfleet. To be appointed both Security and Operations Officer on the Enterprise is an [I]extremely[/I] prestigious thing.) We have good reason to believe it could happen, and no reason to believe it can't happen, even though historically, as far as we're aware, it hasn't happened. Sith are a humanoid species in Star Wars. [I]Most[/I] of them learned and practiced the Dark Side of the force, but there's nothing preventing them from practicing the light. Especially if they were found as a child and taken in by the Jedi Order. Nothing prevents it, it's just not represented generally. Female dwarves explicitly exist in Tolkien's work. We get some kinda questionable justifications for why they either don't go out amongst other races or, apparently, aren't distinguishable from male dwarves in the rare cases they do. Nothing prevents it--it's just not represented in the stories. [/QUOTE]

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