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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomtill" data-source="post: 4247778" data-attributes="member: 37444">As has been stated before, humans dominate in the vast majority of sword and sorcery fantasy. This is also true in the 4e default DnD setting.The old-school DnD races are very human non-humanoids. It's easy to imagine elves, dwarves, halflings and gnomes sitting at the dinner table with humans. Humans are aware  that they are different, but they seem so human. Actually, these races are typically described with phenotypes that fall within the range of human variation. Most of us have seen people in RL that could easily be one of the old school races (even half-orc) with only a little imagination.It takes a lot of imagination to see a RL human as a dragonborn or a tiefling. A tiefling can't even sit at the dinner table with that long fat tail in the way. It's hard to imagine that in a PoL setting the humans wouldn't immediately kill/drive away any such individual that showed up in their town.Having said that, I should also point out that it is a game of imagination. While my own preferred fantasy world consists of humans or human-like humanoids mixing with humans, I have played Eberron for a while now. This is a setting where (especially in places like Sharn) monstrous races mix (sort of) freely with humanoids. It works. Scenarios can range from something similar to the bar scene in Star Wars to bands of people (loosely described) looking suspiciously at a monstrous newcomer (like a tiefling) but grudgingly accepting that they too have a right to be there, as long as they abide by the rules. We have had fun with, for example, with the warforged PC being completely accepted in some circles and vilified in others. I imagine it will work the same for tiefling and dragonborn.Another inspiration might come from something like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, where the old races of legend started coming out of hiding in time for the last battle. The human races were afraid/suspicious but with proper sponsorship they came to accept the friendly ones.</blockquote>

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