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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7904069" data-attributes="member: 3400">Have I or have I not said, multiple times, that for me, the dragonborn are more of a taste thing? I'm not keen on them. So asking me if they broke some camel's back isn't even relevant.But as to the Mos Eisley cantina issue - yeah, Greyhawk has a wide variety of species bumping about - just not all in the same place. The real world has hundreds of ethnic and tribal groups as well - but oddly enough, I'm not likely to encounter them all at the same time in the bar even at Heathrow, a busy international airport at the hub of what was once a global, cosmopolitan empire. The distribution of ethnic groups and tribes in the real world as well as the fantasy races in Greyhawk is regional.I'm sure not going to see Kuo-toa in a random tavern in freaking Verbobonc. I'll probably see mostly humans, some gnomes, and halflings - maybe a dwarf every once in a while and a half-elf or half-orc or two because that's what the surrounding community is like. There aren't big tasloi communities because there aren't any jungles around Verbobonc, so they'll be a fairly rare sight in the Verbobonc taverns. And if a group of them do show up (maybe it's Tasloi night where tropical tree dwellers drink for half price), it's going to cause a bit of a stir.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7904069, member: 3400"] Have I or have I not said, [b]multiple times[/b], that for me, the dragonborn are more of a taste thing? I'm not keen on them. So asking me if they broke some camel's back isn't even relevant. But as to the Mos Eisley cantina issue - yeah, Greyhawk has a wide variety of species bumping about - [b]just not all in the same place[/b]. The real world has hundreds of ethnic and tribal groups as well - but oddly enough, I'm not likely to encounter them all at the same time in the bar even at Heathrow, a busy international airport at the hub of what was once a global, cosmopolitan empire. The distribution of ethnic groups and tribes in the real world as well as the fantasy races in Greyhawk is regional. I'm sure not going to see Kuo-toa in a random tavern in freaking Verbobonc. I'll probably see mostly humans, some gnomes, and halflings - maybe a dwarf every once in a while and a half-elf or half-orc or two because that's what the surrounding community is like. There aren't big tasloi communities because there aren't any jungles around Verbobonc, so they'll be a fairly rare sight in the Verbobonc taverns. And if a group of them do show up (maybe it's Tasloi night where tropical tree dwellers drink for half price), it's going to cause a bit of a stir. [/QUOTE]

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