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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8808090" data-attributes="member: 7023887">But this isn't just about Orcs. It's about all of the races. You can't spend pages of a book explaining how the races that aren't native to the world interact with it. Which is why I feel it's better just to leave up to the DM without setting hard restrictions in the book.You control the campaign. Whether or not it "allows for it" is entirely up to you. Whether you play in Middle Earth only using the monsters and races of Tolkien and not your own imagination is your choice. But there are ways of incorporating your example of a Tiefling in Middle Earth with canon justifications for the evil monsters. But, again, this discussion isn't just about Orcs. It's about whether or not the book should make clear the setting's original racial restrictions at all, because that's what you folks started freaking out about. And if you're going to explain that Orcs don't exist in the world . . . where do you stop? There's several dozen player races in 5e. Which ones do you do this for? Because doing it for all of them could take quite a lot more page space than the Theros way of just listing the major races that exist on Taladas and then saying "the other races could be from distant places on Krynn or rare people corrupted by the Graygem".</blockquote>