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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7822109" data-attributes="member: 19857">Pretty much never.  Depending on the players at the table dwarves and elves may not understand each other or may be the best of friends. Don't tend to have orcs in our games at all these days, though we do have hobgoblins and goblins.  Players can be a hobgoblin if they want, and we use the half-orc rules for it when we do.Nope.  Not since the 90s.  My tables have taken the 3e conception of the halfling and pretty much embraced it and never looked back.I think literally the only time I've ever used this trope - which I don't even identify as a D&D trope - was in a Ravenloft game that I ran in the 90s.  To me this is a Universal Monster Movie trope.I tend to run games that have lots of nonhuman character types available, and worlds where those types of folks are the norm and not the exception.  Rakasta, Lupin, Kobolds and Lizard-men were part of my BECMI D&D games even before "official" rules came out for them, for example, and so were an accepted part of the world.  We've gotten rid of the idea that some groups are born evil.  The only creatures that are defined as evil by something other than their own actions are the ones that are supernaturally evil - demons and devils for the most part, and some of the undead - though even there the devils are what they are because of their own choices and sometimes the undead are as well. We've also mostly gotten rid of the ideas of "racial pantheons" and nations built along racial lines - where you're born is more important for determining which gods you're going to worship or which king you're going to owe your allegiance to.  Our local "elf queen of the deep forest", for example, has subjects who are human, who are goblin, who are halfling, and even dwarves because, well, that's where they live.  They live within her sphere of influence, so she's their queen.</blockquote>

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