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Personally, I find the idea of any shoot-on-sight attitude purely based on race in the FR (or Greyhawk*) weird and trying to compare FR (or even Greyhawk) to RL medieval Europe even weirder. When your neighbor is a 3 ft. tall gnome, and your other a dwarf who can cast spells with a cat that can talk as a friend who cares that that other thing walking into town is a 3 feet tall speaking lizard? Hack, it might be an adventurer** or an avatar of a god and if you shoot at it, it might become angry and kill the whole village with one wave of its hands. In the end though D&D is a game and LFR is a worldwide game. The RPGA's aim is to make sure that as many people as possible are going to have fun. Enforcing others to fit into a particular style of gaming is not the RPGA's aim. If Nitissine and his fellow players prefer to run a game where the locals are extremely prejudiced that is up to them as long as they realize the majority of people prefer lighter games. Lets not get too wound up about this people

* Especially when the kobolds do not even look like regular kobolds...
** The power difference between a typical villager or militiamember and an adventurer is so immense that no sane person would risk attacking them. In fact, a typical villager is going to want to avoid a conflict since they do not like taking risks as much as the typical adventurer

Pieter Sleijpen
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Aw.... I was looking forward to playing a gnome that goes about poking other and gleefully saying in a squeeky voice: 'I got a lair! How cool is THAT? Eh?' :D

Did I miss something?  I have not seen any campaign documentation saying that Orcs are commonly accepted.  There was a post that talked about one city of Orcs that decided to play nice or maybe I should say nicer that the rest of the tribes, but that was in a book not official campaign documentation right.  Even if there is one city the rest of the Orc hordes may be acting as we have seen in the past.  It’s not like we didn’t see areas in LG that were the exception to the rule. 
    There was the Bandit Kingdom where the major religion was IUZ.  I can’t think of another place in LG where if you walked up to the city gates openly wearing a holy symbol of Iuz that the guards would not have taken notice.  I forget the name but there were several core mods that took place in a city where the accepted religion was Hextor lawful evil god of slaughter I believe.  My cleric of Kord wanted nothing more than to burn the place to the ground but there were too many innocents.  The point I am trying to make is that if it’s just one city that we are talking about that’s not enough to really break the verisimilitude of the game.  If you can’t stand orcs stay out of Obould if it’s even in LFR.
    As for the creation cards yes they are out there and yes some people are going to use them.  However having been at D&DXP and having seen what the line was like to get into the dungeon delve, I think that you are overreacting.  For one thing you would have to have beaten the delve three times to get the 15 tokens to buy a single creation card, I think the number of tables to actually beat the delve was under 10(6 was the last number I heard).  Most would have to have beaten the delve 5 times to buy a creation card if they saved all there tokens, many people did not.  They bought the magic item sheets and a few people bought the minis.  So the average person would have to have run thru the dungeon delve 6 or 7 times before getting the tokens to buy ONE creation card.  The second thing to consider is the line for the dungeon delve was very long. Each table was given 30 minutes to run the delve (several GM’s gave people a little extra to finish the round they were in).  You basically would have to run the delve and the stand in line for more than a hour to get to run it again.  I would say that you had to invest about 10 and a half- 14 hours to get you first creation card. The second and third card would take another 7 and a half- 10 hours of role-playing and standing in line.  I know this will not appease the people that believe that if a race is allowed to one person it should be allowed to all.  I just want those that were not there to realize that the people that got the creation cards were not simply handed them for running the delve once we had to work a bit to earn them.
    Lastly I would like to point out that the creation card that everybody seamed to want most was not the Orc that seems to be the major bone of contention here in this thread.  The card they ran out of twice (or so I was told) was the Shadar-Kai Sojourner.  Once again I am not sure I see what the major alarm is unless a whole table of Orc’s or one of the other races walks into town.  But then I recall several tables of Centaurs when they first became available to play in LG.  At least the Orcs, Gnomes or Shadar-Kai will have class levels.  I myself have two of the cards.  I plan on playing a Orc fighter and unless I see something different in the LFCS I am expecting to have problems with the locals when I come into town.  I will have my weapon peace knotted and my hands in plain sight.  Things like the inn suddenly being full or the general store closing wont surprise me.  Local kids might throw dirt clods, rocks, horse apples at me.  However from the way the beginning mods will be written the players will be affecting a small area farming communities or small villages I hope to have a chance to prove that I can rise above my race and become a hero.  Kind of like the drow ranger what was his name?