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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8694663" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You are correct--for perhaps 6e. But as goblins and kobolds are written now (or rather, as they were last written about in Volo's), they generally more bad guys than neutral or good guys. Likewise, good dragons are rarely shown as the rulers of anything, while evil dragons are not uncommonly shown as tyrannical dictators with armies of evil marauders. And this will likely be the case as long as alignments are still used. Even if alignment is continued to be downgraded to only &quot;typically&quot; something, most gamers are still going to treat them as being pretty evil. Especially if 6e writes about them the way they were written about in Volo's, where they basically had few or no redeeming features.While I can't speak for Wildemount or Ravnica because it's been a long time since I've read those books, in Eberron, which famously says any creature can be any alignment, the goblin nation of Darguun is still a pretty evil place--it's the only place where slavery is legal, for instance, and it treats their slaves &quot;like cattle.&quot;I would have no problem with having halflings, gnomes, goblins, kobolds, and even more in a 6e PHB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8694663, member: 6915329"] You are correct--for perhaps 6e. But as goblins and kobolds are written [I]now[/I] (or rather, as they were last written about in Volo's), they generally more bad guys than neutral or good guys. Likewise, good dragons are rarely shown as the rulers of anything, while evil dragons are not uncommonly shown as tyrannical dictators with armies of evil marauders. And this will likely be the case as long as alignments are still used. Even if alignment is continued to be downgraded to only "typically" something, most gamers are still going to treat them as being pretty evil. Especially if 6e writes about them the way they were written about in Volo's, where they basically had few or no redeeming features. While I can't speak for Wildemount or Ravnica because it's been a long time since I've read those books, in Eberron, which famously says any creature can be any alignment, the goblin nation of Darguun is still a pretty evil place--it's the only place where slavery is legal, for instance, and it treats their slaves "like cattle." I would have no problem with having halflings, gnomes, goblins, kobolds, and even more in a 6e PHB. [/QUOTE]

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