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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8839061" data-attributes="member: 7006">I agree with this premise, and the few times I've borked around with Eberron campaign ideas I've done a bit of redistribution myself.  I think this almost might be a necessity come 2024 anyway, if the new books do indeed go the route they tested by making half-elves and half-orcs as part of a multiracial subset, rather than their own "race write-up".  At that point I think that bringing full orcs into the House Tharashk would be a necessity since the PHB would have Orc as the main write-up.I also agree that the goblinoids were too prominent a race on Khorvaire to not have a mark of their own.  Seems kind of odd that the Humans (who weren't even native to the land) show up from across the ocean and then get 4+ marks given to them... while the gobbos get none.  Granted, Humanocentric gameplay is nothing new... but if we look at the distribution of the Houses we see:Human: 4 1/2 (Cannith, Deneith, Orien, Vadalis, Tharashk)Elf: 2-ish (Phiarlan/Thuranni)Dwarf: 1 (Kundarak)Halfling: 2 (Ghallanda, Jorasco)Gnome: 1 (Sivis)Half-Elf: 2 (Lyrandar, Medani)Half-Orc: 1/2 (Tharashk)Kinda funny that elves get "two" houses but only one dragonmark (with the second mark for House Vol having been destroyed), but half-elves and halflings get two full houses to themselves each.  The humans being a part of Tharashk at this point seems unnecessary and probably could be entirely orc and orc-related.  And for goblinoids... it seems to me that giving them the Mark of the Sentinel and thus controlling House Deneith as mercenaries and bodyguards is a little more interesting and gets them into the game more than the humans having it (but that's just me.)At the end of the day... there is nothing intrinsically wrong with keeping the Marks and their Houses as-is, like Keith originally created.  But as the idea of Races has moved on... being more inclusive as to what races are "worthy" of Marks, or indeed the idea that the same Mark can manifest on multiple different races and there doesn't need to be this "Racial purity" angle anymore would not be a bad thing either.  However you choose to run it would be fine.</blockquote>

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