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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6797607" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Except that the elves helped the Realmsfolk build their civilization. The elves and humans share many values as a result. Yes, there are great differences. But their very nature is more human.Dragonborn are described as all of those things, but that's part of what doesn't make sense to me. Why would they be that way? What would cause them to evolve into a human-like creature at all? Not to mention I don't think we can underestimate the nature of humans and how they would view something that looks so completely different from a physical standpoint. Particularly because they look like dragons, they are very large, and look like they would be a threat. Not a stretch considering most people's first-hand knowledge of dragons would be extremely negative, and their lore would also be about how dragons attack and horde treasure, etc.Saurials were introduced poorly in my opinion, I have the same issues with them. Plus, the end state of them in the novels and game supplements is that they live in a very secluded part of the Realms and were never seen again. They too were an alien race, and despite it coming from Jeff Grubb, I'm convinced that it was one of the earliest examples of rebranding of a story to dump it in the Realms because it would sell more. And again, genasi as originally described looked almost entirely human, and they were/are very rare. The act of simply publishing something as a playable race seems to instantly make it 'common.' They are possibly common in adventuring parties in the D&D game, but adventurers are very rare too. It just doesn't seem like it, since we all play adventurers. Ilbranteloth</blockquote>

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