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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 4455935" data-attributes="member: 870">Very true. Whenever I make a melting pot community, I still try very hard to make each of its component cultures stand out - dwarven buildings full of hard right angles compared to near-gardenlike elven villas set away from the road, with humans often stealing the best/easiest ideas from others (or having something completely different). I also try to indicate behavioral/cultural differences - in my latest campaign, burial rites/traditions stand out, particularly because there's relatively few people in the area, each loss is keenly felt by the community. The humans, and a small smattering of others who emulate them, set fire to funeral boats as they plunge over a great waterfall, where as the small halfling neighborhood maintains an isolated graveyard of cairns and barrows, and the dwarves have delved great familial tombs that circle, unendingly according to some rumors, into the depths. The elves and eladrin have less concern for the actual bodies, but maintain a tradition of tying a thong of leather into knots - one for each significant memory of the deceased - and attaching the finished cord to a willow tree so the soul of the fallen is kept protected from the the dangers of the Shadowfell.Generally, I can't stand "humans with funny ears" depictions, so even if most races live together, they re still separate peoples.</blockquote>