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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9811954" data-attributes="member: 6801776">Plenty of other ways to handle that. Mercenary work and guard duty, to start.Adventuring's a job where the standard risk factor includes 9 ft troll predators who hunger for man flesh and can pull a man apart, to say nothing of the building sized, flying, fire breathing dragons. Some of that's got to factor inWe may joke about Australian critters, but the average D&D monster list is far more threatening than anything Australia throws at us IRL.The funniest thing is like... Half of the ones folks complain about are legacy races anyway.Orcs have been playable longer than I've been alive. 36 years, that's how long they've been a playable option.Goliaths? Goliaths are just setting neutral half giants. If someone's setting is so constrained half giants are an impossibility, I got questions.Aarakocra? Complete Book of HumanoidsThe only stuff unique to 5E are Tabaxi, who date back to 1E and just weren't playable, Grung (another 1E import), the MTG batch and Harengon, who are the only 5E original race that wasn't introduced or playable in past editions</blockquote>