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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9506569" data-attributes="member: 65487">As I've said before, I just use dragonborn as an example because that's the species that old skool DMs typically hate for reasons I don't really understand. But I can change to catgirl or shadowman and it would hardly made a difference. Sure, there is the Forgotten Realms, where these races are already integrated in... But, you see, the Forgotten Realms has the same problem that Greyhawk in this regard: fans who want to change everything back to the 1e/2e/3e status quo and that say that the current Forgotten Realms are garbage because they added dragonborn/tieflings with a non-random look/orcs as good guys/what have you in their lawn. And they almost got their wish fulfilled during the D&D Next storyline, when WotC backtracked and reseted the setting to a certain status quo. Dragonborn managed to stay just because of the popularity they have within certain fan circles. Other species weren't as lucky (I still mourn Many-Arrows). So, it's kinda frustrating and tiresome to be rejected almost universally by D&D fans of any setting just because I (and people like me) happen to like a flavour of fantasy that is different to what they had back in the 70s.Do I want you to have dragonborn in your Greyhawk? No. You are free to throw them into Mordor if you want. What I want is to be allowed to have dragonborn in my Greyhawk without someone telling me I'm doing Greyhawk wrong because of it, or that WotC destroyed the setting just because they added the option to have dragonborn in it (that is that, an option. Is not like they are going to send the Pinkertons to your house because you preferred to play in the 1983 Greyhawk version instead of the 2024 one).</blockquote>

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