Recent content by Maxperson

Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Gnomes, Tieflings and Aasimar have never been common in any setting, even Planescape.

I think they were uncommon because of their origins, tending to result from experiments on dragon eggs like the Draconians of Krynn. You can agree or disagree with that, but I don't think it was because cooties. :P As for adding more to the setting, I don't have a problem with that. They...

Clearly. Setting can always change default assumptions. :P Looking at it, they are called out as uncommon, along with Gnomes, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, and Tieflings. "The dragon born and the rest of the races in this chapter are uncommon. They don't exist in every world of D&D, and even where...

Because the 5.5e changes apply when they contradict the 5e rules and lore. In 5e Dragonborn are a rare race. Nothing in 5.5e contradicts that. 1) Not town, village. 2) plonking a village down where you need it isn't the same as saying there are villages everywhere. It's still a rare race...

Why not? Having Dragonborn around would make their appearance not so unusual and note worthy. They'd want them wandering around 1) because they are vain and they made dragonborn in their own image to be seen, and to reduce the threat to them if someone does notice their appearance.

It's not this simple. If you don't teach people how to run and play high level, they are not going to do it or probably do it badly and quit. If people are taught how to do it right, there might be a huge upsurge in high level demand. As it stands, the low interest in high level play is...

Or one or more sorcerer-kings warped some humans into beings in their own image out of vanity , and dragonborn were, er, dragon born. It's not whether it makes sense to add them. It can easily make sense. It's how true to the original setting image do people want Dark Sun to be.

You're asking a lot for a rare race. Every race isn't going to get multiple nations.

It's clear that there is more than one dragonborn population there. "Unther suddenly returned to Faerfun a few years ago and promptly went to war against Tymanther. The realm has since been reduced to small tracts mainly along the coast of the Alamber Sea and Ash Lake." That's multiple areas...

There is one.

I'm not sure that's true. Cultures vary wildly from state to state and even city to city within states. Small towns that are more isolated are even more varied. As for a national culture, there's a lot of disagreement about what that means across the U.S. We are a large and varied nation...

"Hi, my name is Strahd. HR sent me here because I drained one of the servants and left his corpse for the other servants to dispose of."

What difference will that make? If there are 10,000 people who want the game and 3,000 preorder and 6,000 total books are printed, you will have 4,000 people complaining about availability. This doesn't change if all 10,000 pre-order and 6,000 total books are printed. You will still have...

There's not one culture. Some of the town are insular and distrusting of outsiders. Some less so. Some feud with one another have have a fish culture. Others don't. Yep. I didn't say each town had a different human culture. I simply said the towns were not really one culture or government...

Those things already exist somewhere. It's not hard to say that there's a Tabaxi village in High Forest, or a Harengon warren in plains east of the Wood of Sharp Teeth, and a large Triton city in-between Waterdeep and the Moonshae Islands. All a made for 5.5e setting is going to do is what the...