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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 495559" data-attributes="member: 8226">Excellent point. Given the human tendency to kill/enslave people not exactly like yourself, plus the fact that sentient species (w. the ability to shape their environment, therefore spreading out of their particular ecological niche) would be in direct competition with each other, I feel this is not feasible.Most game worlds should have long and bloody histories of genocidal wars, darkened by superstition and the fear of the strange, only occasionally lightened by willingness to weigh others on what they do, not what they are. (Of course, it would resemble our world a lot, except even more extreme.)We are talking about imagined worlds, however, so anything goes if you like it so. If you (or your players) are happy with gazillion races, go for it.Personally, this is one of the reasons I find Dragonstar and Planescape good: they offer an explanation to the startling variety of sentients. For every mixed-species world, there must be a dozen ones where there are only humans, or elves, or orcs, or antigravity cave-dwelling lemures. Makes sense, I think.</blockquote>