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<blockquote data-quote="Olibarro" data-source="post: 1867956" data-attributes="member: 24888">Eh. &quot;Standard&quot; D&amp;D is such a hodgepodge of mixed myths and decades of literature and rpg storytelling and wholly created items that I'm not bothered by little things like certain creatures not matching my personal conception of their myths.And any GM is welcome to create their own personal cosmology in which things work the &quot;right&quot; way for them. My own version of this is a campaign world I created years ago where the creation myths identified six &quot;races of man&quot; and all the intelligent humanoids fell into one of those six races. Humans and halflings were one line, dwarves and gnomes another, all the variants of elf another, orcs and ogres together, goblinoids, and trolls. And I decided I wanted my elves to be even more Tolkeinesque--taller, stronger, etc. And my trolls more Shannara-ish. So I did. Some things moved closer to traditional myth; some things farther away... but all of it made me happy with the way my world worked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olibarro, post: 1867956, member: 24888"] Eh. "Standard" D&D is such a hodgepodge of mixed myths and decades of literature and rpg storytelling and wholly created items that I'm not bothered by little things like certain creatures not matching my personal conception of their myths. And any GM is welcome to create their own personal cosmology in which things work the "right" way for them. My own version of this is a campaign world I created years ago where the creation myths identified six "races of man" and all the intelligent humanoids fell into one of those six races. Humans and halflings were one line, dwarves and gnomes another, all the variants of elf another, orcs and ogres together, goblinoids, and trolls. And I decided I wanted my elves to be even [i]more[/i] Tolkeinesque--taller, stronger, etc. And my trolls more Shannara-ish. So I did. Some things moved closer to traditional myth; some things farther away... but all of it made me happy with the way my world worked. [/QUOTE]

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