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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9816539" data-attributes="member: 58172">The Greyhawk setting in the 5e 2024 DMs Guide, needs to make the 5e 2024 Players Handbook true. Probably there needs to be more integrated Dragonborn lore. But also more lore for Goliath, Orc, Tiefling, and Aasimar would help too. I tend to compare as follows.Orc : Goliath :: Ogre : GiantSo anywhere there are Giants and Ogres, can inform the lore about Goliaths and Orcs. Meanwhile  Jotuns mountainrange wilderness, and Yeomanry multispecies towns are the go-to for Goliath cultures. By contrast, Dragonborn are a challenge. Dragons are everywhere, anywhere. But Dragonborn dont seem to be. They are only mentioned in passing a handful of times, while remaining obscure as a species. So where the species exists specifically requires explicit lore. The solution is a regional setting for Dragon Island nearby off the coast of the Flanaess subcontinent. This Dragons Island setting can be assumed to include all of the Players Handbook species, while also featuring prominently several diverse Dragonborn-founded cultures. It also helps to think negationally about where a species isnt. For example, the list of the prominent species in Old Keoland notably omits Elf, Tiefling, and Awsimar. The absence of Elf in the southwest Flanaess region is interesting. Also the absence of Astral (Tiefling and Awsimar) suggests divine magic is scarce.</blockquote>