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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5114100" data-attributes="member: 41321">The thing is, we're human, so we're biased. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You've got two choices here if you want to "fix" this.  You can either limit the human race to a few key stereotypical characteristics - at which point it becomes unrealistic - or you can describe all other races as being varied and having multiple cultures with very few qualities in common - at which point the races just become humans with funny makeup.I don't think this needs to be fixed, but if you do want to address it then the proper place is in your campaign world, not in the PHB.  You're free to create as many elven cultures as you want.  Some campaign worlds have done this.  Somebody mentioned Eberron earlier and the dinosaur-riding halflings.  Those aren't the only halflings in Eberron.  Lots of halflings live in the Five Nations and have "integrated" into the predominant cultures there.  That might not be the best example, but look at the elves of Eberron.  There are the elves that have integrated in with the Five Nations culture, like the halflings, then there are the mongol-like elves that raid and conquer the steppes and the death-worshiping elves who live off the mainland (I forget where... it's been a while since I looked at that book).The truth is D&D races are different ways of looking at humanity.  They're what happens if we take humans and we say, "what if we lived underground?" or "what if we didn't age and lived for 500 years?"  If we start trying to make all the races as varied as humans then they lose what made them special in the first place.  It may not feel realistic, but the truth is that we've never actually encountered another sentient species like us.  For all we know we ARE unique in how varied we are.So stop thinking about it so hard and go drink some grog with your dwarves. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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