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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5116686" data-attributes="member: 41321">Does every race need a whole slew of cultures?  Realistically speaking, yes, if there were another species of sentient beings on this planet they would probably have multiple cultures, but from a feasibility standpoint it makes worlds a lot harder to create.One could rationalize the one-race-one-culture thing by saying that the norm for a race/species is for it to be close-knit and have one culture, and humans are the exception.  Humans breed like rabbits compared to the long-lived races, and they need room to spread out and grow.  Where elves or dwarves are content to stay in their forests and mountains humans overpopulate and need to expand.  This leads to humans being more spread out and diverse than the otehr races.The other races may even see humans as a cancer on the world, and might feel threatened by their fast breeding and expansionist thoughts.I think if you had a world with two races (humans and something else, probably) then it would be worth fleshing out that other race so that it has a variety of cultures, but when you've got a large (and ever-growing) number of races it seems like a lot of effort to flesh out each one to the same extent.And actually, going bck to my first paragraph, would another sentient species on this planet really have a set of different cultures?  For all we know having to evolve on a planet where there's an entirely different species of people may have polarized us to the point where we unified early on into one culture.  Even if there's no physical conflicts there will probably be conflicts of some sort between these two races.  It's us versus them.  Reminds me of the end of Watchmen (the comic more than the movie).</blockquote>

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