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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 6518877" data-attributes="member: 48518">As DM, my next campaign will have exclusively humans as PC races. Although, mechanically, almost all PHB races will be represented as human sub-races (native american, persian, etc...)I find the humans fascinating in the diversity of personalities that players will give them. Dwarves, elves and halflings all seem to be destined to follow the tolkien-esque stereotypical furrow that exists for these races. Sure, some people manage to step slightly aside of it, but mainly dwarves are all burly beer-drinking toughs, halflings are light-hearted agile thieves, and elves are haugthy forest-loving archers or mages. It gets old. And boy, did I work hard as DM to counter those stereotypes, believe me: I went to far as to play or have NPCs that were grim and dark halflings, alcoolic elves, and intellectual dwarves. It's not impossible, but you're just fighting an uphill battle where players will initially react to the atypical NPC with a comparison to the stereotype.By removing the stereotypical races other then humans, you essentially eliminate the racial preconceptions and reset the metagame racial landscape. Hopefully, this will open new RP-ing ground by ridding the players' minds from their preconceptions.</blockquote>