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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5608098" data-attributes="member: 54710">I think the key is to have enough variety that the players can play what they want, while also having enough editorial guidance that world elements make sense in the context of the game.  So, you can have whatever races you want in a small town, but the races represented by the PCs are probably the only races in that small town (and some PCs may be unique, or members of the only family of their race).As some have noted up thread, the real world can be quite varied.  But, that having been said, most people run into a small subset of the world's cultures on a daily basis.  And those of us who do run into a large number of the world's cultures on a daily basis do so because we've chosen to live in unusually diverse locations or have careers that expose us to a wide variety of people and places.  Since adventurers tend to have that kind of career, a campaign could end up being quite kitchen sink, even if every location in that campaign is populated with a small number of races.-KS</blockquote>