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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5842895" data-attributes="member: 32536">I don't really think so. Sure, this can get hard if every race were as humanlike as elves or dwarves, but good racial concepts are not. The gap between races only gets smaller if you create new race concepts within that gap. There are still a ton of race concepts that exist outside of the narrow gap between humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings.Still, avoiding the whole "everything starts looking the same" issue is one of the reasons I argue against having watered down racial choices like Goliaths rather than Giants, Shifters rather than Werecreatures, or Dragonborn rather than Dragons. Diluting everything by making it half-human pushes good concepts into the gap that otherwise exist outside of it, meaning they crowd against each other more. It is easier to differentiate a Dragon from an Orc than it would be to differentiate a Dragonborn from an Orc, just like it is easier to make Elves and Orcs more different from each other than Half-Elves and Half-Orcs.</blockquote>