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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1948042" data-attributes="member: 2673">I could see such a situation evolving in the following circumstances.First, each race would need to have a geographically isolated, more or less independant homeland.  There's no obvious borders to fight over, and everyone has the natural resources they need to prosper.  As anyone who's played any Civ knows, a neighboring nation that has say, Iron or Horses that you lack is practically begging for an invasion.  You need to also have a lot of room in these homelands.  As soon as one of these lands starts getting crowded, they'll be looking to expand.Second, the city in question would need to be an independant city-state where the nations do most of their trading.  Perhaps they are ran by a council, with one member from each race saying their part.It would really help if there was a common cause, some great enemy that caused them to unite and, at least for awhile, forget past hatreds.  This could have been recently, and in fact would help if most of the nations had been depopulated after the dragon/giant/demon/whatever armies were stopped.The most obvious plotline then is that old tensions start to arise, and the alliance starts to break apart.  Only a small band of intrepid adventurers can hope to find proof that the demon army is rebuilding, and waits for a sign of weakness to start the killing all over again.</blockquote>