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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6800658" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Since we disagree on whether or not frequency of mention is indicative of anything inside the game world, we're not going to see eye to eye on this. IMO, the books make it very clear with actual statements that Dragonborn are common, have a good reputation, and work with evil orgs only extremely rarely. TO me, the idea that page count matters in this discussion is a huge reach, at the least. "Must" isn't relevant. They aren't that way because it's the only way to respond to such a circumstance, but because it's the way they specifically responded to it, and it's a perfectly reasonable way in which to respond. As for being former slaves, that experience also doesn't have a "must" in how people react to being free of it. Libertarian individualism may make sense to you, but to others the opposite is more sensible, or something in between. Oh, and about the real world bits in that other post. Maco Polo wasn't strange for having travelled afar. The VIkings were doing a lot more than raiding and colonizing. For the entire viking age, they did a lot more trading and working as mercenaries who were highly sought after because they didn't break their oaths, once given, came with their own really good gear, and fought with noteworthy ferocity. But they travelled so widely that Asian silks and rings engraved with Arabic are among the things found in Viking grave sites. And most of their travel was trade and exploration. The point is, travel wasn't as uncommon as most people think during that time. And while FR has more dangers, it also has more people who know how to defend against those dangers. And it's pretty well established that people travel further than the next village quite a bit. Maybe it wasn't back in the early days of FR, but that only matters in games like yours that take place then. For the rest of us, the world is as it's been established since then, more or less. And that includes travel that's at least as normal as it was in 14th century europe, but probably more so.</blockquote>

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