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Message: <blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 3906289" data-attributes="member: 1869">I have realized something.  All the groups I have ever played with generally game in GH, FR or some sort of generic DnD world.  I have only participated in one homebrew campaign in which the races were entirely original except for humans.  I assumed generic DnD is the norm but perhaps that is unfounded.  Najo, I assumed you were running a generic DnD game when you made your original comments.To respond to the few of you who already responded to me:It sounds as if you banned gnomes because they didn't fit into your campaign setting.  I can understand that, it is a flavor decision.  I would also infer that you would have banned any other race if they didn't fit in and that it simply wasn't "gnome hate".  You're not DnD racists <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The other resounding theme is that people are struggling to find ways to have Dragonborn and Teiflings fit into campaign settings like GH, FR, Eberron, etc.  The issue I have with them as PCs, is everyone will want to play one because they're rare and supercool.  That has a horrible impact on the game when you now have a group of super bizarre creatures running around in the campaign.  My feeling is that if they're in core the race is likely to be uncommon or commonly encountered.  I don't think rare or unique creatures should be PCs.It becomes, "Hey I am the solitary drow on the surface" phenomenon.  If you write Dragonborn or Tieflings into a new campaign setting.....well peace....but FR or GH....too strange.</blockquote>

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