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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9349212" data-attributes="member: 7635">I feel like we're quibbling over an ant hill.So far, the 5e PHB is adding five new species that weren't in 3e: tieflings, aasimar, goliaths, dragoborn, and promoting orcs. Aasimar and tieflings are planetouched and emulate their parent species (and fill in nicely in Iuz's lands as well). Goliaths were always reclusive mountain dwellers, and Good orcs fill the role previously filled by half-orcs. At best, we have to account for dragonborn and as people have said, its a big map outside the Flanaess. "Dragonborn migrated en masse after a major cataclysm in their homeland" is about all I need. As for all the optional MotM races? Well, those were always DMs call but most of them are fairly minor bit players. There isn't going to be a tabaxi nation anymore than there is going to be a gnoll or minotaur nation. Isolated villages scattered here and there and occasional NPCs in major metropolitan areas. I think a lot of the pearl clutching about "the Furrys are coming" is overblown because people can't let go that D&D isn't just Tolkien races anymore. But the fact goliaths walk around the Free City doesn't mean Greyhawk is ruined. If Greyhawk's theme is "Sword & Sorcery in a world of danger and adventure", then it doesn't matter if I'm an elf or a dragonborn. If Greyhawk's theme is really "D&D using only what existed in 1983" well, then maybe is should have stayed dead.</blockquote>

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