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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9713721" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Sure… I personally almost always play humans when I play in a game, though every now and then I make an exception. But when I GM, I don’t just get rid of all the other options.This is why I’m suggesting you involve the players at the start, before things are set. So it’s not about adding a new race. Get their input so that you have consensus on your restrictions. These means that whatever curated list you come up with is one everyone is already aware of and has had a chance to offer input on. Yes, but as I said, I can’t comment on it without knowing more about the reason. [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] has now elaborated a bit, and what he’s said is pretty standard stuff… his world and the challenge of adding things and so on. The original “artistic choice” is still unclear other than it relates to a bit of setting lore about a war between elves and drow that resulted in the drow fleeing underground. Very standard stuff when it comes to D&D. So what I would consider if this was me… how much does that lore about war between elves and drow inform play? How much does it matter? Is it actively informing events in the game? Is it just a bit of background flavor? Must it have all played out exactly as commonly understood? For me, the purpose of the setting is to provide a framework for play. So how does any given element do that? How important or influential is it to play?And how does that ancient lore inform play? Sure, but that’s a stat block and then maybe like a PC creation entry.  Seriously… that’s like a few minutes of effort. As for the lore, that may take a bit more… but it also shouldn’t be too much. Have you left any unknown regions? Continents across the sea? Forgotten valleys? And then of course… it’s fantasy so there could be any number of fantastic reasons. Planar travel. Pocket dimension colliding with the prime. A lich shrunk their city and put it in a bottle. And so on. I have learned to look at these moments as opportunities rather than as disruptions. I’m uninterested in maintaining the status quo. But if your setting had a war between drow and elves they already exist in the setting, no?</blockquote>

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