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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8145971" data-attributes="member: 6879661">I think that the core races of d&d with perhaps the exception of Dragonborn, tieflings and half Orcs are well established cultures in fiction, film and legend. They are familiar in such a way as you instantly conjure an idea of what they are like and probably an idea of a few traits they may have. This basic cultural awareness shouldn’t be underestimated.Maybe they’re boring, maybe they are sterotyped. But it someone asks what there dwarf is like then there are some basic ideas that they can draw on for inspiration that can carry them through.I’ll be honest, without those cultural signifiers a cat person or humanoid turtle is far more likely to be a human in a catsuit because they don’t come with the cultural, mythological, established, ubiquitousness that the dwarves, elves, gnomes etc do. The player is on their own from an ideas perspective. Many players in that situation will revert to type.One of the reasons Dark Sun elves and dwarves were so interesting was because the tropes could be turned on their head and twisted. Without the tropes you’re twisting thin air.</blockquote>