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Iggwilv/Tasha To Join Volo, Xanathar, and Mordenkainen? [UPDATED!]
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8072507" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Would you expect someone in Nazi regalia to not be abused if he showed up in St. Petersburg, Volgograd, or Warsaw? Elves were involved in a brutal, even genocidal, war with them in not too distant memory (from an elf's perspective). That's part of why you'd expect any drow walking about undisguised to be in for a world of hurt, from elves if nobody else knew what they were.</p><p>The same largely applies between dwarves, gnomes and goblins/orcs. The Greyhawk setting itself includes lots of strife, well within living memory for these long-lived races like the Hateful Wars that drove a lot of the humanoids from the Lortmil Mountains, through the Uleks, and into the Pomarj. </p><p>And if, as has been mentioned, the relationships in the Great Kingdom, Iuz, and the Horned Society would likely produce tieflings, that isn't exactly an endorsement of their being happily coexisting in any of the surrounding nations.</p><p>Face it, the setting is riven <strong>repeatedly</strong> in recent centuries by warfare and substantial parts of the geography continue to be held by evil forces of infernal-worshipers, cambions, and humanoids. With that in mind, it would be weird if characters with racial associations to those enemies <strong>weren't</strong> hassled - maybe not killed on sight, but spat on, beaten, and socially marginalized.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>People draw all sorts of lines for their own personal preferences - there's nothing wrong with that and as long as someone explains it like that, I'm OK with it. The presence of one oddball doesn't require the presence of more oddballs. </p><p></p><p>I'm personally not that keen on tieflings or dragonborn because I'm not that keen on characters starting out with resistance to various energy attacks. I'm also not that keen on the way tieflings have been developed since their debut in Planescape - the aesthetic has converged around horns, horns, horns as opposed to being a lot broader (like a scent of ash that follows them or other more creative options) - and I'm tired of that aesthetic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8072507, member: 3400"] Would you expect someone in Nazi regalia to not be abused if he showed up in St. Petersburg, Volgograd, or Warsaw? Elves were involved in a brutal, even genocidal, war with them in not too distant memory (from an elf's perspective). That's part of why you'd expect any drow walking about undisguised to be in for a world of hurt, from elves if nobody else knew what they were. The same largely applies between dwarves, gnomes and goblins/orcs. The Greyhawk setting itself includes lots of strife, well within living memory for these long-lived races like the Hateful Wars that drove a lot of the humanoids from the Lortmil Mountains, through the Uleks, and into the Pomarj. And if, as has been mentioned, the relationships in the Great Kingdom, Iuz, and the Horned Society would likely produce tieflings, that isn't exactly an endorsement of their being happily coexisting in any of the surrounding nations. Face it, the setting is riven [b]repeatedly[/b] in recent centuries by warfare and substantial parts of the geography continue to be held by evil forces of infernal-worshipers, cambions, and humanoids. With that in mind, it would be weird if characters with racial associations to those enemies [b]weren't[/b] hassled - maybe not killed on sight, but spat on, beaten, and socially marginalized. People draw all sorts of lines for their own personal preferences - there's nothing wrong with that and as long as someone explains it like that, I'm OK with it. The presence of one oddball doesn't require the presence of more oddballs. I'm personally not that keen on tieflings or dragonborn because I'm not that keen on characters starting out with resistance to various energy attacks. I'm also not that keen on the way tieflings have been developed since their debut in Planescape - the aesthetic has converged around horns, horns, horns as opposed to being a lot broader (like a scent of ash that follows them or other more creative options) - and I'm tired of that aesthetic. [/QUOTE]
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