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<blockquote data-quote="SavageRobby" data-source="post: 3862880" data-attributes="member: 51573">There is no &quot;right or wrong&quot; here. Just preference. Is the world you're running in a shared world? Do the other DMs run in that world as well?If so, then you definitely have to be aware of the preconceptions of that world, and it would be best to adhere to them. Suddenly switching what has amounted to canon for a game world is typically considered bad form. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />However, if you're running in a game world of your own making ... then you can design it how you want. The most important thing in that case is communicating it clearly and upfront to your players, especially if they're used to something else (as apparently they are). Write up a little one page deal about how you see your game world. Is it dominated by the standard Tolkien-ish races, and are the other races looked on with great hostility and suspicion? Make sure to include that fact.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SavageRobby, post: 3862880, member: 51573"] There is no "right or wrong" here. Just preference. Is the world you're running in a shared world? Do the other DMs run in that world as well? If so, then you definitely have to be aware of the preconceptions of that world, and it would be best to adhere to them. Suddenly switching what has amounted to canon for a game world is typically considered bad form. :) However, if you're running in a game world of your own making ... then [b]you[/b] can design it how you want. The most important thing in that case is communicating it clearly and upfront to your players, especially if they're used to something else (as apparently they are). Write up a little one page deal about how you see your game world. Is it dominated by the standard Tolkien-ish races, and are the other races looked on with great hostility and suspicion? Make sure to include that fact. [/QUOTE]

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