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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 7868303" data-attributes="member: 7015332">D&D continents are also freaking huge tho.Plus, you know the typical planet has more than one continent...? As well as habitable islands of varying sizes?Furthermore, you're assuming that all humanoid species and cultures are inherently expansionist, or dare I say imperialistic or colonialist. You say they "don't just stay nearly packed in their little cubby holes." What if there are geographic or climatic barriers to expansion? Certain species may restrict themselves to biomes they can thrive in. If they dwell in a forest basin and are adapted to that environment, but past the mountains there is only desert and grassland, they might not want to leave the forests. Biological deterrents? Maybe they're slow breeders. Maybe their food supply only grows/lives in certain regions. What about cultural and political deterrents to expansion? Maybe their culture and/or religion centres around a resource that can only be found in their homeland, so they stay put. Maybe they are charged to protect certain holy sites in their region and don't see the point of leaving. Maybe they would expand but are currently tied up in a war with horrors from beneath the earth. Maybe they don't like to just go to war and rape, pillage, and burn everybody else they come across; any migrants among their kind are tourists and diplomats, not conquerors.</blockquote>