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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4202974" data-attributes="member: 30678">I don't know about you, but seems to me that 4E is far more restrictive than 3E has ever been.  And if we're talking about fluff, names matter, too -- I wouldn't implement any "Asian-themed/Oriental" stuff to my setting, for example. Nor could I see them working in, say, the Forgotten Realms. And look at how much people were upset about the Golden Wyverns and Emerald Frosts and Dragon-Tail Cuts. The biggest concern to me, as DM, is the continuity. If I was a beginning DM with "newbie" players, I don't think it would break anyone's Sense of Disbelief to tell them, for example,  that Fomorians are rulers of the Feywild. However, I can't do that for my players unless I come up with pretty good reasons how those primitive, mutated giants huddling in remote caves (and whom many PCs have battled and slain) have "evolved" into magical rulers of another plane.As far as actual Racial Benefits go, the examples provided do not hint at any "setting-specific" fluff, so I'm okay with them. However, if there are powers like "Horns of Bael Turath" or "Legendary Stamina of Nerathians" in PHB, I'm going use a black marker. On every player's PHB. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>