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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 5140397" data-attributes="member: 10738">You're not the only one. I have several players who are excited at playing both wylden and shardminds. Ironically, I have suitable entry points for both of these races in  my own setting, which does include fey plant folk and an entire race of crystalline parasites that convert living beings in to thralls and are a general menace. I've used my own stat write-ups for these entities for years....adding shardminds in to the mix as a unique variant on the existing theme is easy enough. Minotaurs and Gith alreadye existed and played important roles in my setting, so this was simply a case of "finally, material I have needed for some time now."The hardest race to date I had to include was the eladrin, which for various reasons did not fit well in one of my campaigns; I allow players to run eladrin, but they have to come from extraplanar realms for the story to work. In my other campaign setting, I reskinned my high elves to work as eladrin, to accomodate my players who want to run them.This idea of having a metric ton of content when you only need a bucket-full is not a new concept to D&D; if anything 4E's approach is downright modest compared to the "drinking from the fire hose" approach of 3.X. I don't think anything anywhere in this edition or others requires a DM to employ all of the concepts presented in his or her campaign, but I also think that at least in terms of the default assumptions of the broader "D&D multiverse" a good D&D campaign will make efforts to accomodate what the players want....and thus, the reason I am making a space for wylden and shardminds for those players I have who want to take advantage of them.</blockquote>

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