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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5571605" data-attributes="member: 92511">Is Parsimoniously-Kitchen-Sink-ish an option? For PC races, I am usually...let me clarify, "by today's standards" it seems I would be considered fairly restrictive...in the sense of what I allow as a PC, I mean. Though I may sommmetimes be talked into an "unusual" choice if you can give me a good reason.An example of not giving me a good reason usually goes a little something like this:Player: "Are there <insert random race here> on this world?"DM/Me: Maybe.Player: "I wanna play a <insert -drow/gnoll/wilden/dragon-bore/eladrin/half-dragon-ogre with purple fire for hair or any hundreds of other races- here> cuz I think it'd be soooo cool...She's an outcast...and kinda a loner...AND..."Me: STOP! Just stop right there. The answer is no. Why does this character concept have to be that particular race?Player: Cuz it'd be so...Me: <rubs temples> No. You're capable of making a "cool outcast" character with any number of the dozen or so allowed races. You don't have to be some creature no one in the "normal world" has even seen before. For NPC races that exist in the world, I'm fairly kitchen-sink...goblins, orcs, kobolds, yada yada...Some are more exotic/rare races might be smaller, forgotten or fabled or hidden/unnoticed communities..."the last/only of their species" sort of thing. But they do exist/can be in the world...if I need them to.As for "monsters" I am somewhat middle of the road. Certain are "true races". Some are individual or, again, very small enclaves. Some are simply very very rare. Like dragons. Yeah, they exist. Yes, they are a real race that "mates true"...but (other than the mating every some many hundreds of years) they are solitary creatures...and very very rare.I've never done the "ultra-first-best-progenitor of all other monsters of this kind" before...but I really like the idea. I can certainly see incorporating that easily into my world.Sooo...ummm....did I answer the question?Yes, I am kitchen sink on some things and parsimonious about others. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />--Steel Dragons</blockquote>

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