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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9732414" data-attributes="member: 25818">On the one hand, I get the reason for integration. It's what we see in the Real World, so why wouldn't it be that way in the fiction?On the other hand, the reasons why we integrate in the Real World are sometimes fairly bad. If the orcs are integrated because they were enslaved in bulk before being emancipated, that has uncomfortable and sensitive parallels in the Real World. If dwarves emigrate to a particularly cosmopolitan city because of an economic depression in their homeland caused by a trade war, that has uncomfortable parallels in the Real World.I play to get away from the Real World, frankly. I can absolutely see why people would not want that in their fantasy.On the other other hand, Eberron does exactly what I said, providing real reasons why integration has occurred in the setting's history.</blockquote>