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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clark411" data-source="post: 1289977" data-attributes="member: 4768">All I can recommend is looking at your lists and refining them to suit your vision of the setting.  What races are absolutely pivotal for someone skimming your book to get an appropriate feel for where you take the setting with it's combination of places, politics, adventure possibilities, "genre", spells, special rules for combat / roleplay etc?Do the Sizumi (species name is dangerously close to Nezumi, imo) need to be in the core chapters of the book or are they minor players in your vision?  How about the Sanun or K'tan?   If your vision is primarily a setting with tons of possibilities and nifties... well, I may be wrong in saying this, but that's not really hard to find out there right now, and doing so will simply wedge you into that category- another PDF or wee book to be scanned over rather than paused upon by a player remarking "Oh i've heard of this interesting, original Setting."  Finding a coherent setting with flavor and deep thematics seems far harder than finding new publishers who are more than willing to churn out crunch, stats, and "options" for their potential buyers.  I'd rather see someone take 10 races and 10 classes to the moon, than see 30 and 22 sputter erratically with not much more chance than to have this idea here and there ripped for other people's pre-existing campaigns.  As for classes, are you not going to make any of them PRCs?  The world loves PRCs... except for those who think they're drowning in em.  Artificer (Prerequisite: Int 13, Squaresoft/Final Fantasy legal issues feat) for example, sounds like a PrC.  Is every 20th or 30th adventurer an Artificer?  If so? What does this mean for your setting?  What's it mean as far as Race 16 is concerned?</blockquote>

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