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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8281129" data-attributes="member: 18182">This is an old complaint in D&D fandom that I've never really understood. It's cropped up on Reddit recently, also in response to the uda, loren, and aeven additions to drow lore.In the real world, we have hundreds of extant human cultures RIGHT NOW. In the fantasy world of the Realms, we have dozens of human cultures detailed over the decades. What's so immersion breaking with a diversity in elven culture? What is the problem with having a long list of elven cultures (i.e. subraces)?One difference, of course, is that elven ethnicities tend to have more physical (magical?) differences than real-world ethnicities do. It sometimes is more than just differences in skin tone, but some elvish ethnicities have wings, some shapeshift into wolves, others can breath underwater . . . but still, they all represent different peoples, different cultures of elves.In the past, I've seen some fans complain of "fairness" . . . why so many different elves and not an equal amount of different types of dwarves? Or halflings? The answer to that is not to complain that there is too much diversity in the elven race, but to create new types of dwarves, halflings, and other races. IMO.</blockquote>