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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 125633" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!LOL!!!<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=":)" /> Joshua, you have a good memory! Yes, my world is huge. I can't remember, but when I said that my campaign world is similar to Jupiter in size,--someone actually posted a mathematical analysis and schematic for how large *Jupiter* really is!<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=":)" />Well, it's huge, but perhaps not *exactly* the size as Jupiter!Gee, it was funny though!<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=":)" />As for regional differences, mechanically, well, yes, I suppose there is. Not stats, per se, but I do have different regional feats, as well as cultural feats, and additional skill ranks that a character gains depending on their background. For example, northern barbarians from coastal regions, gain Skill Focus: Sailor, at +3. They also get +3 ranks in Swimming. Besides a few tailored skill ranks, cultural feats, there are occasional class-restrictions or bonuses, as well. For example, if one comes from the Celtic-island region, they can be a Rogue, but I have skill restrictions on what skills they can develop, and can only change through campaign circumstances. Or one cannot start as a Paladin in a barbarian culture. Or a Wizard. In addition, there are technology and equipment restrictions, based on culture and region. There are also specialized Prestige Classes that I have designed that are culture and region-specific. I think that using spells, skills, feats, and so on, are far more interesting for example, than coming up with a hard-wired racial sub-variant for every possible terrain and climate. There are no stat-different "Desert Elves" in my campaign. I just give them a sunburn, and some different skills, and culture. However, such a group of elves is simply a group of high elves, or wood elves, adapted to the harsh desert environment.Not that I'm unduly bashing FR, for there are some cool things in FR, but the trend of a different elf/dwarf/halfling/gnome for every season and climate is just too,....contrived to me. My world has strong non-human races and cultures, but most of which, are outnumbered by humans. I have a dozen different *African* human cultures, three or four *Near-Eastern* cultures, eight different *European* type cultures, and probably six-eight *Asian* cultures in the immediate campaign environment. These are predominantly human, but that doesn't mean that various non-human groups cannot be influenced or adapt different human cultures. Thus, you see overlap in many areas: The humans and elves in the Celtic areas have much in common, as do elves, humans, and dwarves have in the far north, and so on.How's that, Joshua?<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=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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