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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7800741" data-attributes="member: 7015558">I don't think anyone is saying that Dragonborn can't be in Oerth; they obviously can, especially for someone's home-game. I think what some people (at least, I am) are arguing is that Dragonborn shouldn't be shoved into Oerth as a core race with a flimsy explanation.For example, Dragonborn were added into Forgotten Realms with this big Spellplague event that shoved two world Abeir and Toril together, where they flipped some continents, but then they flipped back but some Dragonborn stayed... I honestly can't explain it very well because it doesn't make much sense.What I'm trying to say is adding Dragonborn into Oerth can be done, but it should be done in a hand-wavey kind of way, like &quot;Dragonborn were always here in this kingdom in the middle of the forest that we never mentioned before now.&quot;I think the way tieflings were added in GoS is a pretty good metric for how Dragonborn could be done. There's only one tiefling, she's named to be from an area of the world famous for being run by a cambion, and it's pointed out how the locals find tieflings completely foreign and terrifying (compared to humans/elves/dwarves that people are used to).If an official D&amp;D product threw in a Dragonborn NPC and said he was a traveler from the Draconic Imperium of Lynn, this would feel like a natural expansion of the lore of Greyhawk that even complements the material already published. Nothing already published is contradicted, and the overall setting is made richer for it.If you're curious, the Draconic Imperium was mentioned in &quot;Dragon Annual 1&quot; (I don't have a copy but I can squint at the words in this link on page 72: <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/207313974/Dragon-Magazine-Annual-1-1996-pdf" target="_blank">Dragon Magazine Annual #1 - 1996.pdf</a>). I believe that area of the world may also be the setting for the French graphic novels &quot;Black Moon Chronicles,&quot; but don't quote me on that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 7800741, member: 7015558"] I don't think anyone is saying that Dragonborn [I]can't[/I] be in Oerth; they obviously can, especially for someone's home-game. I think what some people (at least, I am) are arguing is that Dragonborn shouldn't be shoved into Oerth as a core race with a flimsy explanation. For example, Dragonborn were added into Forgotten Realms with this big Spellplague event that shoved two world Abeir and Toril together, where they flipped some continents, but then they flipped back but some Dragonborn stayed... I honestly can't explain it very well because it doesn't make much sense. What I'm trying to say is adding Dragonborn into Oerth can be done, but it should be done in a hand-wavey kind of way, like "Dragonborn were always here in this kingdom in the middle of the forest that we never mentioned before now." I think the way tieflings were added in GoS is a pretty good metric for how Dragonborn could be done. There's only one tiefling, she's named to be from an area of the world famous for being run by a cambion, and it's pointed out how the locals find tieflings completely foreign and terrifying (compared to humans/elves/dwarves that people are used to). If an official D&D product threw in a Dragonborn NPC and said he was a traveler from the Draconic Imperium of Lynn, this would feel like a natural expansion of the lore of Greyhawk that even complements the material already published. Nothing already published is contradicted, and the overall setting is made richer for it. If you're curious, the Draconic Imperium was mentioned in "Dragon Annual 1" (I don't have a copy but I can squint at the words in this link on page 72: [URL="https://www.scribd.com/document/207313974/Dragon-Magazine-Annual-1-1996-pdf"]Dragon Magazine Annual #1 - 1996.pdf[/URL]). I believe that area of the world may also be the setting for the French graphic novels "Black Moon Chronicles," but don't quote me on that. [/QUOTE]

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