Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] D&D 2024 Edition Heads Back To Greyhawk, Makes Aasimar A Default Option

On Fri, 17 May 2024 07:53:37 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 5/17/2024 12:58 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

So... Aasimar, Goliaths, and Orcs now become player races, and Greyhawk
might be a standard setting?
 

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Ugh.  I'm all for weird PC races, but they don't belong in the PHB.
It's like pulling teeth to try to ban/change anything in there.

I never had a problem saying no to PCs in that regard (just because
it's in the core book doesn't mean I have to use it in my campaign).
It is a bit more problematic because players have more of an
expectation that tieflings/etc. will be available, and are sometimes
disappointed that they can't use those critters.

But my campaigns tend to be fairly low-fantasy/low-magic and those
races don't really fit into the feel of the game world. I'm generally
not opposed to orcs, except any player who choses them should expect a
much rougher time of it, since they WILL be disadvantaged by their
choice of race in a human-dominated world.

(in fairness, elves don't fare much better ;-)

I was never a Greyhawk fan.  I tried to use it once or twice, but it
didn't do anything for me.

Yeah. I don't think WOTC is going to have much success. I don't think
Greyhawk is the type of gameworld most people like.

Well, unless WOTC radically changes everything about Greyhawk,
stripping away everything that made the game unloveable (and unique).
In which case... why bother?

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