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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9351372" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Not quite. Remthalis and myself have pointed out that, in terms of a "Curated setting" where you harshly limit PC options because you don't feel like that many sentient races can co-habitate, that the monster manual tends to make it very clear that there are a lot of sentient races that tend to be ignored in that calculation. Mournblade countered with the idea that the planet is large, and so it makes sense to them that some remote mountain tribe of monsters might not be known about by the people. My counter-point was that, while the planet is large, each DnD ecosystem, in theory, holds between 10 and 30 different sentient groups. It can make sense, sure, that a single lost and isolated tribe is in the mountains that only adventurers come into contact with... but fifteen? And these aren't the mindless beasts, these are the intelligent creatures with language. And when you consider this is true in every DnD ecological niche... I don't know, it starts feeling like a stretch to say that only humans and the occasional elf or dwarf make trade agreements or travel around, when you have a book of 180 some odd sentient beings with language set up in every place on the globe.</blockquote>