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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5410192" data-attributes="member: 3820">I kind of let my players' choices determine just how humanocentric any given slice of a setting tends to be. If they mostly choose humans, then I won't include too many non-human NPCs locally. If half the group is some variant of elf, then there needs to be a local elven population to account for that, and maybe that'll provide some interesting adventure hooks with the two cultures intermingling. I assume that if a player picks a given race, they're interested in exploring what it means to be that race in particular, so it'll be more interesting for them to interact with more of their own kind from time to time than simply to explore them up against humanity. A surprising number of races are already variants of human, or easily reskinned as such; half-orcs, tieflings, shifters, goliaths (as "giant-blooded"), devas (as "aasimar"), half-elves, shadar-kai (as a shadow variant of tiefling), kalashtar, even changelings, and probably even highly reskinned dragonborn or githzerai... all these races can be unusual children born to a human parent, raised among humans, and identifying with a human culture (if somewhat on the outside). In a way, that reinforces the widespread and versatile nature of humanity even when the "human" stat block isn't being used.That said, I always talk with players beforehand; they vote on what sort of game they'd like to play, even. If the game they want seems like it would be most fun with humans, I get groups like tonight's, which is three humans and one half-elf. (And accordingly, the nation they're playing in is massaged to be fairly dominantly human.) If we're picking something deliberately bizarre and exotic, I might get more the "one out of 4 PCs is human by the rules, but three out of four refer to themselves as human." And in that case, the city is decidedly more... mixed in nature.</blockquote>

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