An orc is not a green skinned real world dark skinned human (for the racists who think orcs = black people when they are not).
Dargonborn are not simply scaley human with dangerous breath.
These are differentt rsces/species entirely. Trying to treat them like different looking humans is not what fantasy should be about.
Dwarves, elves, and the others are simply their own.
It us the sane with fantasy religion. This push to lessen or outright get rid of it is anti fantasy and allows real world religious extremists get their way - I include the mythical old drool 80s anti dnd catholic trope or the hateful atheist who see fantasy religion as the equal to real life religion. Tyr, Bhaal, and the rest are not real world religions. Nothing to fear from them.
All characters should be able to choose a religion or be agnostic/atheist with all the consequences that comes with in a world where multiple gods actually exist.
Back to races and stats. Elves are more agile than humans. They just are. In the same way even the weakest grizzly is gonna be stronger than all but the 0.000001% of human muscle bound freaks. Lol Or the leopard is gonna be faster. Or the monkey a better climber..etc., etc. Different species are different because they are different species. It's that simple. Why does the real world need to taint fantasy. I get it, racism is bad. If you hate someone in the real world because they look differently than you you are scum. But , let's keep that sort of bias to the real world. And, humans are humans. Dwarves, elves, and half orcs are not humans. Let's not pretend that they are.
