Editing Draenei (section)

==Controversies==
It bears mentioning that the draenei are (or rather were, as the arguments have faded over time) a huge source of [[skub]] for many /tg/ fans. The biggest and most prominent complaint is that they make absolutely no sense as a fantasy race, because they're "too science-fictiony". Anyone with their head screwed on calls this one of the stupidest arguments ever made, for two main reasons:

First, sci-fi and fantasy have cross-pollinated each other since before the very beginning of RPGs. [[Gary Gygax]] himself wrote [[Expedition to the Barrier Peaks]], in which an alien spaceship has crash-landed on [[Greyhawk]]; whilst [[Mystara]] was supposed to be the far-future of [[Blackmoor]]. [[Conan the Barbarian]] encountered an alien sorcerer who flew to Hyborea from another world in one of his first stories, something [[Conan the Adventurer]] gave homage to by having an episode where Conan rescued an alien ape-man wizard who travelled between worlds in a comet-like magic-fueled spaceship.

Second, [[Science Fantasy]] exists amongst the list of [[Setting Aesthetics]] for a reason. [[Star Wars]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] are themselves examples of the Science Fantasy setting. And the draenei are perfectly suited for it; their "spaceships" are actually giant fortresses that use divine magic to propel them between worlds and planes - something that would fit right into [[Spelljammer]] or any other cosmic D&D setting.

Another argument that the draenei prompted was when 4th edition D&D was revealed, proponents of the "4e is WoW!" argument loved to point to [[tiefling]]s and assert that they were clearly made to resemble draenei. Of course, these people didn't tend to admit that the draenei look was all but identical to the [[diabolus]], a [[Mystara]]n race that came out decades earlier.