Ringtail
World Traveller (She/Her)
Well I wouldn't place any hard and fast restrictions, but being a new generation of D&D Player I also don't have any ties to the simpler older version of Greyhawk. Here's how I would handle it.
Fantasy Standards (Elves,Dwarves, Humans, etc.) are fine, no need to change anything here. Half-Bloods are good too, so Half-Orcs and Half-Elves get the pass, though I'm likely to include a note about the possible reception to them being oddities. IMO, Tieflings and Aasimars are kind of like Half-Bloods. While they aren't necessarily Half-Devil or Half-Angel (though they can be) they do bear some influence of these planar entities. Since both Celestials and Fiends exist in Greyhawk, I have no problems including them, but that player is likely to be the ONLY ONE. Maybe there are like. . . 5 on the whole continent. Frankly I don't think those people would have an issue being special and an Aasimar can probably pass as a human. Dragonborn are the tricky bit, like Elves or Dwarves they are a full race that presumably has a detailed culture/society and a place to live, possibly a nation. I would probably discourage them but if somebody is dying to play one I won't disallow it. Its a huge bummer to be told your favorite race "doesn't exist' and have to pick something else. If I had to squeeze them in I'd either reflavor them as Half-Dragons, which would be super rare like the Tieflings or stick an ancient empire of the boundaries of the map. I like the idea of Dragonborn China-type set up.
Fantasy Standards (Elves,Dwarves, Humans, etc.) are fine, no need to change anything here. Half-Bloods are good too, so Half-Orcs and Half-Elves get the pass, though I'm likely to include a note about the possible reception to them being oddities. IMO, Tieflings and Aasimars are kind of like Half-Bloods. While they aren't necessarily Half-Devil or Half-Angel (though they can be) they do bear some influence of these planar entities. Since both Celestials and Fiends exist in Greyhawk, I have no problems including them, but that player is likely to be the ONLY ONE. Maybe there are like. . . 5 on the whole continent. Frankly I don't think those people would have an issue being special and an Aasimar can probably pass as a human. Dragonborn are the tricky bit, like Elves or Dwarves they are a full race that presumably has a detailed culture/society and a place to live, possibly a nation. I would probably discourage them but if somebody is dying to play one I won't disallow it. Its a huge bummer to be told your favorite race "doesn't exist' and have to pick something else. If I had to squeeze them in I'd either reflavor them as Half-Dragons, which would be super rare like the Tieflings or stick an ancient empire of the boundaries of the map. I like the idea of Dragonborn China-type set up.