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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7804511" data-attributes="member: 22779">The resistance to Dragonborn just absolutely baffles me.&nbsp; Is it a holdover 4e thing?&nbsp; I mean, what's the actual problem here?&nbsp; Lizard folk aren't exactly rare.&nbsp; The part that I find laughable is that demi-humans get a pass.&nbsp; Hrrrmmm, virtually immortal (at least from a human perspective (Greyhawk grey elves lived something like 2000 years) faery creatures can walk into a store and get served no problems.&nbsp; But a lizard man gets automatically attacked?&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />&nbsp; It's just such a bizarre point of view in a setting that has SO many humanoid races running around.Sure, Sasserine and Cauldron might be later additions, but, Saltmarsh?&nbsp; That predates the boxed set.&nbsp; A1-4?&nbsp; Hommlet?&nbsp; Why limit the setting to a Tolkien ripoff?&nbsp; I'd much rather we add in some of the funkier races than be stuck in the 1940's as far as what races are acceptable in common society.&nbsp; I dunno.&nbsp; Maybe it's because the first Greyhawk fiction I ever read was Quag Keep by Andre Norton.&nbsp; Terrible book, sure, but, hey, I was like 9 years old and it stuck in my head as totally cool.&nbsp; And it featured a scaly lizard dude character.&nbsp; I'd have to wait almost thirty years before D&amp;D actually had a scaled PC race as an official race I could take.I'll never, ever understand people's attachment to the Tolkien races.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7804511, member: 22779"] The resistance to Dragonborn just absolutely baffles me. Is it a holdover 4e thing? I mean, what's the actual problem here? Lizard folk aren't exactly rare. The part that I find laughable is that demi-humans get a pass. Hrrrmmm, virtually immortal (at least from a human perspective (Greyhawk grey elves lived something like 2000 years) faery creatures can walk into a store and get served no problems. But a lizard man gets automatically attacked? :erm: It's just such a bizarre point of view in a setting that has SO many humanoid races running around. Sure, Sasserine and Cauldron might be later additions, but, Saltmarsh? That predates the boxed set. A1-4? Hommlet? Why limit the setting to a Tolkien ripoff? I'd much rather we add in some of the funkier races than be stuck in the 1940's as far as what races are acceptable in common society. I dunno. Maybe it's because the first Greyhawk fiction I ever read was Quag Keep by Andre Norton. Terrible book, sure, but, hey, I was like 9 years old and it stuck in my head as totally cool. And it featured a scaly lizard dude character. I'd have to wait almost thirty years before D&D actually had a scaled PC race as an official race I could take. I'll never, ever understand people's attachment to the Tolkien races. [/QUOTE]

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