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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7801016" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>Sorry mate, but Ghosts of Saltmarsh actually disputes a lot of what you've postulated here.</p><p></p><p>"Saltmarsh's roughly five thousand residents are predominantly human, with the dwarven mining contingent of about two hundred workers the largest non-human faction in town. Elves and halflings draw no special notice, since the Silverstand hosts a wood elf enclave and a few halfling villages are tucked in the hills around town. The residents react to other visitors, especially tieflings and dragonborn, with a mixture of curiosity and fear."</p><p></p><p>That one paragraph is a pretty good encapsulation of Greyhawk and its races. Humans are the majority, and elves, dwarves, and halflings aren't special either because they show up often. But the last sentence kind of shows the issue of treating every PHB as if they're common.</p><p></p><p>If Saltmarsh is afraid/curious of tieflings, it's highly doubtful more than the single tiefling NPC show up there. Same goes for Dragonborn, especially when there isn't a single Dragonborn character in the book. Other races like Drow and goblinoids are also known, but they're known for "showing up and killing/enslaving you," not for showing up for a beer.</p><p></p><p>No one is arguing that humans are the only race that matters in Greyhawk (at least I'm not), but there is gradations of how different races are treated. And I'm happy to have Dragonborn added, but them suddenly appearing and everyone being totally cool with them is not something that treats Greyhawk's history very respectively, especially when there are plenty of empty continents and lands they can originate from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 7801016, member: 7015558"] Sorry mate, but Ghosts of Saltmarsh actually disputes a lot of what you've postulated here. "Saltmarsh's roughly five thousand residents are predominantly human, with the dwarven mining contingent of about two hundred workers the largest non-human faction in town. Elves and halflings draw no special notice, since the Silverstand hosts a wood elf enclave and a few halfling villages are tucked in the hills around town. The residents react to other visitors, especially tieflings and dragonborn, with a mixture of curiosity and fear." That one paragraph is a pretty good encapsulation of Greyhawk and its races. Humans are the majority, and elves, dwarves, and halflings aren't special either because they show up often. But the last sentence kind of shows the issue of treating every PHB as if they're common. If Saltmarsh is afraid/curious of tieflings, it's highly doubtful more than the single tiefling NPC show up there. Same goes for Dragonborn, especially when there isn't a single Dragonborn character in the book. Other races like Drow and goblinoids are also known, but they're known for "showing up and killing/enslaving you," not for showing up for a beer. No one is arguing that humans are the only race that matters in Greyhawk (at least I'm not), but there is gradations of how different races are treated. And I'm happy to have Dragonborn added, but them suddenly appearing and everyone being totally cool with them is not something that treats Greyhawk's history very respectively, especially when there are plenty of empty continents and lands they can originate from. [/QUOTE]
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