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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5609508" data-attributes="member: 29398">PC options in my games are pretty much limited to Tolkein-isms (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Part-Orcs, Part-Elves) - I keep Gnomes around mostly because I keep getting talked into it, but I've made them very rare.  If you want anything else you'll have to do some very fancy rolling on the random race table and be prepared to get stuck with something you don't expect.As for monsters, I pretty much never think of any of them as "the only one" with the exception of named demons, devils, and the like.  Most common monsters have some sort of culture, reproduction, etc. just like the kindred races; only in some cases said elements might not be on this particular world or plane.  And they're probably all out there somewhere, though about 90% of them will never get a chance to show up in the game as there are just too many!Culturally, my worlds take the kitchen sink and then throw in the fridge, stove and microwave.  If it has existed as a historical Human culture from before about 1650 you'll probably find it somewhere on the planet if you travel far enough; and to a much lesser extent I do the same sort of variances with Elves.  One of these days I'll do some similar work on Dwarves...Lan-"in the last session I played I fought a shark that had a frickin' laser beam - and then looted the laser"-efan</blockquote>