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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7907738" data-attributes="member: 29398">I guess a lot of this has to do with how you plan out your setting; and whether you place communities of, say, Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits close enough to the party's starting point and-or adventuring area that characters from those races would be halfway common.It also depends how much travelling the party is likely to do, what playable races they're likely to meet there, and whether at that point players can either cycle out their current PCs or replace their dead with a PC of the newly-encountered race(s).For example, in my current campaign I made them all start with Humans as they were in an almost-exclusively-Human land, and told them that other races (Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Part-Elves, Part-Orcs, others*) could come in once the party got out of that realm and into the wild-lands; which would likely occur in the first adventure.&nbsp; Seemed to work out OK.* - others includes various things (Gnomes among 'em) that are uncommon enough to only be accessed by an unusual roll on a racial abundance table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7907738, member: 29398"] I guess a lot of this has to do with how you plan out your setting; and whether you place communities of, say, Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits close enough to the party's starting point and-or adventuring area that characters from those races would be halfway common. It also depends how much travelling the party is likely to do, what playable races they're likely to meet there, and whether at that point players can either cycle out their current PCs or replace their dead with a PC of the newly-encountered race(s). For example, in my current campaign I made them all start with Humans as they were in an almost-exclusively-Human land, and told them that other races (Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Part-Elves, Part-Orcs, others*) could come in once the party got out of that realm and into the wild-lands; which would likely occur in the first adventure. Seemed to work out OK. * - others includes various things (Gnomes among 'em) that are uncommon enough to only be accessed by an unusual roll on a racial abundance table. [/QUOTE]

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