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I developed a slightly biological largely tongue in cheek approach and came up with the notion that Dwarfs are adapted to Alpine...

Out of universe, humans are most common because most of them time not having them be would increase the word count without actually...

That's because you don't take into account how long a generation is. In PHB 3.0 the 'adult' age of a human is 15, 40 for a dwarf and 110...

One thing I loved in the old Scarred Lands setting was their elf concept of the Forsaken. The god of the elves had been killed in the...

That made me think of the Birthright settings use of Source Holdings which take the form of ancient henges, primeval forests, faerie...

I still wish I'd managed to bring the old Midnight Realm game to the table. It was an offshoot of the Talislanta setting, using the same...

In one of my campaign worlds, elder races fertility (or lack thereof) was explained by the presence of taint from a Far Realm gate to...

Perhaps long-lived races like elves only can have children a few times. Where humans can become pregnant each month, an elf might only...

One of my campaign worlds has halflings as a dominant race/species in a pastiche of mostly 19th Century Europe. This world was quite...

Gygax most definitely assumed his personal taste was objectively justified! He was infamous for arguing that way in Dragon; frequently...

I don't worry too much about species' populations in my settings, unless it is going to be a specific plot point (like they are on the...

Yea, that tracks. In my own games, elves and dwarves are generally less common, but I do have rationales for that, and they are...

I don't even think people prefer 1 anymore. Kinda feeling that "modern" setting have no problem with tons of elves and dwarves and them...

Yeah but many post 1990s setting have elves and dwarves be very active. So there is a sense of dissonance.

I think, in the '70s, when fantasy fiction was still pretty niche, creating a human-dominated world was just a natural assumption. No...