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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9490673" data-attributes="member: 42582">I understand the context that makes you post this. But I have no idea where the idea that you've received actually comes from.I mean, we can probably assume that Gygax's City/Town Encounter Matrix in Appendix C of his DMG reflects his ideas for a typical fantasy city, which would include Greyhawk, Dyvers or Hardby. And it includes the following note about "ruffian" encounters (DMG p 191):If desired, 1 in 4 can be half-orc or of humanoid race (goblin, hobgoblin, kobold, orc).And in the original Folio the population information for the Free City of Greyhawk, for both demi-humans and humanoids, is "some". For Dyvers it is demi-humans "some", humanoids "few".The notion that there is some general hostility to non-human individuals has no foundation I'm aware of in the core materials. Particular cases (eg an Orc in Furyondy) might be different, but part of the point of the setting is that not everywhere is Furyondy. While Furyondy has humanoids listed as "doubtful", even Nyrond has them as "few". And the Great Kingdom of course has "some".Quite.</blockquote>