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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omand" data-source="post: 1130659" data-attributes="member: 14344">I don't know if I have anything much to add here, aside from the fact that this is an issue I have struggled with in my own homebrewed world.My solution for at least part of the plethora of races was to combine all orcs and goblinoids into one "race" much like Tolkien.  Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears and Orcs are all simply varieties of Orc in my world.  I just use the general term Orc and whichever stats I think fit the encounter.  I tweak descriptions so that all of the four groups generally look similar.  I use the term goblin in game as slang to describe small orcs which use the goblin stats from the MM.Like others, I have also divided up my humanoid species on different continents.  Gnolls, for example, exist on a southern landmass closer to the equator (strange symmetry here with what others have posted).I still have not decided if I will use Yuan-Ti or not on another southern tropical landmass.  I will likely use Lizardfolk instead, and cut down on numbers.In terms of my top six list:HumansElvesDwarvesOrcsHalflingsGiants (Ogres, Trolls, MM Giants)I do currently use gnomes, but am always wrestling with the idea of just getting rid of them.  After all, how realistic can it be to have so many pint-sized humans running around between Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings?Also like others I limit sub-races in my campaign.  Any differences between types of humans, dwarves and elves are culture-based, not stat based.I don't know if I have said anything new, but there it is for what it's worth <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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