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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9804141" data-attributes="member: 58172">A setting for all of the Players Handbook options should have native cultures for Dragonborn and Goliath, but shouldnt have cultures for Awsimar and Tiefling.It is easy to have an isolated Dragonborn, even unique. A Dragon did it. But the description mentions a mixed Dragonborn community, from which any Dragon species traits are possible. Especially because the Dragons themselves are in conflict, the Dragonborn culture seems to be sizable enough to function independently from the Dragons.The Goliath is in the same situation as Dragonborn. They needing a separate independent culture to function without the hierarchy and conflicts of Giants. Moreover, there wont be a unique Goliath, since they "descended" gradually.D&D has a tendency to stereotype "indigenous" "tribes" as if "primitive" and remote. But tribal peoples can be technologically advanced.Dragonborn and Goliath can each have many diverse native cultures, but each needs at least one.Celestial-soul Awsimar and Fiend-soul Tiefling look like their Humanoid parents and grow up in their cultures. The setting has a sufficient explanation for HOW these rare Astral-touched individuals are  being born sporadically in any Humanoid family, but needs an explanation for WHY this phenomena is happening.Tiefling could have a native cultures, such as the Nentir Vale setting supplies, but the description of the Players Handbook doesnt necessitate this.The setting needs native cultures for Dragonborn and Goliath, but not for Awsimar and Tiefling. At the same time there needs to be a comment about why Celestial and Fiend are producing the Astral-touched. Perhaps it is in response to Humanoid behavior? The more Good that Humanoid individuals do, the more Awsimar are born, and oppositely, the more Evil they do the more Tiefling are born. The Awsimar and Tiefling themselves are innocent, and responsible for their own actions.</blockquote>

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