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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8375669" data-attributes="member: 6801228">How? How can you talk about Evil without in any way shape or form referencing the real evils done to people in the real world?Who says it doesn't strongly influence my play? An Earth Genasi rogue, who sits still for hours at a time and speaks to the Earth is just as much an Earth Genasi as one who is a Barbarian who speaks to the Earth and acts like a boulder on the battlefield plowing through enemies. Being an Earth Genasi absolutely is meaningful and influences my play... but that doesn't mean that I can't be a certain class or have certain mechanical stats.Again, what does this have to do with anything? A) You have not only a planet, but multiple infinite planes of existence, I think you can find room for something. Which ties into B) Races like the genasi come about when races like humans are exposed to elemental energies. There you go, explained. What were they doing for the world's history? Likely existing. Unless you have plotted every square foot and written every month of history for your entire game world, I'm sure you could have a place for them to fit in. And if you absolutely can't? Then don't have them, but the races you do have can be widened to encompass more concepts. Which is the actual thing we are talking about.And? In DnD dwarves are popular and have been for decades. Everyone fall over in shock. In Fantasy that extends beyond DnD... people born with elemental powers are a concept that dates back to the Bronze Age. Genasi help fulfill that fantasy in DnD. My point was not that Genasi in specific are more popular than Dwarves, but that the fantasy concept of a person born with an intimate connection to the classical elements is a powerful trope in Fantasy, so it is perfectly fine to compare that (as demonstrated through the Genasi, which is a close way to reach that trope) to dwarves as being popular enough to compare their archetypes. And the only reason I even made that point, is become someone else stepped in to say that comparing Genasi to Dwarves in terms of "has a specific archetype" was inappropriate because dwarves are a more popular concept in all of Fantasy.</blockquote>

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