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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 9724503" data-attributes="member: 5435">I went through a DMing phase where I wanted my world to be innovative and weird. I invented strange races and cultures, and had a blast statting out character options.That phase ended when I started trying to run games in my weird world. The number of players willing to immerse themselves in the lore and avail themselves of the weird options was vanishingly small.I should have listened to Gary. PCs don't need to be 90% human but players DO need familiar landmarks and hooks to inspire their PC concepts and jump into the game. It is so much easier if you can tell the group "The Sea Orcs are viking-like slavers and raiders" or "The country of Relain is dominated by a small number of scheming noble families, like Renaissance Venice".So today I make the overall frame familiar and use the weird as spice.</blockquote>