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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2080226" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>In my old homebrew, there was evolution, and there was divine provenence--and they interacted. So, faeries arrived at sentience naturally--heck, there very existence was a spontaneous natural happening. ("Natural" in a world with magic, of course.) Some of the older races evolved naturally, just like humans in our own world: dragons, kobolds, maybe a couple others. Of course, animals of any kind (including these) were all descended from the creations of the earliest civilization, which occurred when there was only plant life on the planet, and their most powerful wizards/scientists/engineers had literally invented animal life. Most of the "standard PC races", however, were the creations of gods--just like they believed. When the gods discovered the world, they began populating it with beings designed to worship them. Thus, the goblins, giants, elves, dwarves, and several others just spontaneously came into being. However, the gods had all pretty much followed the same blueprints--why change what works?--and so these various races were, to varying degrees, inter-fertile. [Think of it as "hey, she created some elves out of mud to worship her--that's pretty cool. I think i'll create some people out of mud to worship me, but i'll put them underground and call them dwarves".] So, humans, trolls, and many of the "goblinoids", as well as the numerous subraces of elves, dwarves, and halflings all came from evolution and cross-breeding. Add a little magic, and even more wacky things can occur: gnomes were a side-effect of a titanic battle between giants and dwarves [i don't remember if i came up with that before or after reading Dragonlance]. </p><p></p><p>There's more detail to the above, and more stuff on other races, plus some races (illithid, dracon) coming from other dimensions or worlds. But, the short version is that, for my purposes, only a handful (i think maybe as few as 4, if you count all faeries as one group) of sentient races evolved naturally, even with all the magic, while all the rest were created, imported, or immigrated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 2080226, member: 10201"] In my old homebrew, there was evolution, and there was divine provenence--and they interacted. So, faeries arrived at sentience naturally--heck, there very existence was a spontaneous natural happening. ("Natural" in a world with magic, of course.) Some of the older races evolved naturally, just like humans in our own world: dragons, kobolds, maybe a couple others. Of course, animals of any kind (including these) were all descended from the creations of the earliest civilization, which occurred when there was only plant life on the planet, and their most powerful wizards/scientists/engineers had literally invented animal life. Most of the "standard PC races", however, were the creations of gods--just like they believed. When the gods discovered the world, they began populating it with beings designed to worship them. Thus, the goblins, giants, elves, dwarves, and several others just spontaneously came into being. However, the gods had all pretty much followed the same blueprints--why change what works?--and so these various races were, to varying degrees, inter-fertile. [Think of it as "hey, she created some elves out of mud to worship her--that's pretty cool. I think i'll create some people out of mud to worship me, but i'll put them underground and call them dwarves".] So, humans, trolls, and many of the "goblinoids", as well as the numerous subraces of elves, dwarves, and halflings all came from evolution and cross-breeding. Add a little magic, and even more wacky things can occur: gnomes were a side-effect of a titanic battle between giants and dwarves [i don't remember if i came up with that before or after reading Dragonlance]. There's more detail to the above, and more stuff on other races, plus some races (illithid, dracon) coming from other dimensions or worlds. But, the short version is that, for my purposes, only a handful (i think maybe as few as 4, if you count all faeries as one group) of sentient races evolved naturally, even with all the magic, while all the rest were created, imported, or immigrated. [/QUOTE]
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