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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9350822" data-attributes="member: 7635">Credit where credit is due, Gary was not a tremendous fantasy author (I've seen his fiction) but like most DMs just kinda pulled what he knew. People wanted the LotR races, so he found as many LotR drawbacks as he could to keep them from taking over the game. (Spoiler: he failed). Even Ed Greenwood used Tolkien's "Demi human in decline" story beat for so long that the 3e FRCS specifically calls out how Moradin radically increased the birth rate of dwarves and the elves returned from Evermeet to remove notion that nonhuman races were in decline (how's THAT for explaining rules changes in lore!)But to me, the same thread that begins with "dwarves should only be able to be low level fighters and thieves" ends with "I don't want fey rabbit people in my Oerth". It just depends where you are on the thread.</blockquote>