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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8805205" data-attributes="member: 7038056">I don't think any changes to canon are quite as simple as you make it out to be for some people. Orc and drow simply weren't defined in DL1 because they didn't need to be; at least for orc it wasn't until 3 years later when DL Adventures written by Hickman and Weis was published that they finally defined half-orcs as not existing. The fact the original creators finally got around to defining it is what probably carries so much weight and makes people resistant to a published change, just look at the other Dragonlance thread about the Cataclysm and the questions on who wrote the 2E material I was citing. I'm actually not immediately sure where the no drow thing comes from, maybe the 2E stuff where I'm pretty sure they also said no lycanthropes? DL Adventures doesn't seem to mention drow in the elf section one way or the other at least.You are right though that the irony is I'd bet WotC does follow more of the DL1 model of just not defining it and not featuring any orcs so people can do whatever they want. The art so far hasn't shown anything that wouldn't be considered traditional DL imo so I don't quite get the problem people have in this thread. If you really need WotC to spell everything out clearly, perhaps a game centered around playing make-believe isn't a game I'd want to do at your table. (Not you personally, but in a general sense.)Personally I'm far more interested in if and how they explain clerics pre-Disks of Mishakal but we don't have the book yet and the info released so far hasn't touched on it so I guess I'll save the speculation for the day the book goes live on D&D Beyond and I can skim through it to decide if it looks interesting enough to buy the physical book in December.</blockquote>

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