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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7820018" data-attributes="member: 2209">The  <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3518/Epidemic-Books?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Oathbound </a>setting has this baked into its backstory. It is seven realms with semidivine ruler/prisoners who reach into a fantasy multiverse and pull in individuals, groups, cities, and armies and plunks them into their themed realms hoping to spur an evolutionary fittest survival contest that will result in someone tough enough to defeat them and take their place bound to the world. So there is a reason for the D&D standard huge number of intelligent races and monsters running around. The world is also full of divine power so things grow quickly and more powerfully so there is even a reason for rapid level development and huge populations.In my current D&D gothic horror game I have a human focus with most monsters being variants of humans (undead, werewolves, NPCs, etc.) but also allowing in D&D stuff, so the party has a half-elf and a half-orc and elves and dwarves and orcs have history and story significance for the game. The most monsterish things have been Cthulhu mythos type creatures.</blockquote>