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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6279382" data-attributes="member: 2067">You say that like D&D doesn't include centaurs and mummies and dragons and sidhe and monks and coutl and warforged and treants and space pirate githyanki and Thor and zombies and....Is really it any more of a mishmash than what we have now as Greyhawk/FR-based critters?D&D has always been fatasy-genre fanfic mashup awesomeness when you take the whole thing into account. Even Gary shmushed together wargames and Tolkein and the Elric saga and Greek myth and cheap plastic chinese toys...there is no semblance of genre purity in this game. At any individual table, this plays out functionally pretty fine. DMs who like monks use them even if their game isn't set in pseudo-Asia. DMs who like mummies use them even if their game doesn't have a pseudo-Egypt or pseudo-Inca Empire. The monsters you use in your game are always a small (often quite small) subset of the entire galaxy of thousands of monsters that exist in D&D. DMs who like braxats will use them, Dark Sun or not. Lazy is good, but we can enable lazy without privileging some subset of lore over others.</blockquote>