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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 5932119" data-attributes="member: 9249">I don't mind it as long as the setting is "big" enough for it. Something like Planescape or Spelljammer has plenty of room for dozens of races. Problem in more traditional settings is that you have the dozens of PC races, and then the dozens of humanoid monsters-- races in their own right-- and on and on and on.Well, I think 4e started to get that right with the elective ability score bonus. If they do more of what I've been begging for them to do-- expand what 'race' means in D&D-- then tying more racial features to your choice of bonus would allow them to have greater diversity within a more manageable number of races.Think like Pathfinder's Advanced Player's Guide and the alternate racial features, but moreso. Instead of having 'elf' and 'eladrin', or 'hill dwarf' and 'mountain dwarf'... you have 'elf' with one set of racial features, and dwarf with one set of racial features, that are still part of the same greater Elven and Dwarven races and thus take up less conceptual space than multiple Elven and Dwarven subraces.</blockquote>