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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7907159" data-attributes="member: 22779">Serious question [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] - have you ever seen a live civet cat?  Dodo birds existed in the world for hundreds of thousands of years before anyone knew about them.  Scientists in the real world are discovering new species every day, with all the information that we have in the real world.A pretty large enclave of Dragonborn could be hanging out in the Hellfurnaces, or The Amedio Jungle, or The Wild Coast or The Bright Desert or any of a hundred other places without any problem whatsoever.  Have you actually played Greyhawk so much that you have run campaigns in every region?  With the same players?  Such that those players would be knowledgeable enough about every single location of Greyhawk that it would be impossible to slot in a new race?  That is bloody impressive if true.OTOH, it's far more likely that your players, while they might have played a campaign or two in Greyhawk, have only a passing familiarity with the setting, maybe with some strong familiarity with this or that region, and no knowledge whatsoever of different areas.  This is the nice thing about Greyhawk.  Particularly if we're rolling things back to 1983 boxed set Greyhawk.  Most of the Darlene map is undefined and undeveloped.  What's in the Pomarj?  No one knows.  What's in the Bright Desert?  No one knows.  This isn't Forgotten Realms.  Greyhawk is so undefined that I find it absolutely baffling that anyone could seriously argue that slotting in a new race is a major change to the setting.</blockquote>

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