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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8138450" data-attributes="member: 6801228">You mention Dark sun as being "tightly thematic", so I was curious. Here is a list of every sentient race I could find for Darksun, minus the ones exclusively added in 4e. Sourced from 1d4chan and the horrifically incomplete Darksun Wiki.AarakocraDrayDwarfElanElfGithHalf-GiantHalflingHumanKenkuMaenadMulPterranSsurranTarekThri-kreenYuan-tiPyreenPsurlonsAnakoreBelogiBroghSilt RunnerT'chowbTohr-Kreen (Mantis Noble)ThraxVillichiI'm counting 27 races. Some aren't player options, and technically I probably shouldn't count Muls and Half-Elves, which would bring us down to 25.So, I think you are right. Most of these are adding to the game at a meta-level, and really not considered "part of the world", but I think it is fair to say that for some people, the world of DnD is full of strange societies, and sometimes the bug gets in your head. "Hey, those mantis people we fought last campaign were odd. What would it be like to play one?"And as a DM, I feel like I need to figure out not only the player races, but also the villain races. I need to know where they are, and how they interact with people, but the conversation always seems focused on the player side of things, when talking about how coherent the world is.Edit: And to be somewhat more on topic. How can we present a human-centric world, when there are 24 other races in the world? Human's can't actually outnumber all of them and those civilizations still be stable, unless they are all in decline. Which gets... odd.</blockquote>

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