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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LandOfConfusion" data-source="post: 6535544" data-attributes="member: 6780381">Theoretically you can just rename all the races in the PHB.  Or at least a handful of races.  Issues of game balance really only matter when you want to take stuff from your game to another game.  I mean yes you can break stuff at your table, but if it is broken for everyone it doesn't really matter.  So, don't get hung up on labels or even game balance.  Ok pay attention to balance in so much as you don't want to make one option way better than all other options.  Then players feel they need to take that option.If you want to make a world where there is one race, like real life on the planet Earth, then just pick a race and do it.  If you want to essentially use sub-races then just reskin the races in the book.  Come up with reasons why there is differences and variations in all these sub-races.  Magic, where they live, influence from the gods, whatever.  The sub-races don't have to look or act like the race you are using from the PHB.  For example you could take the dwarf stats and say they are a sub-race of humans that live in the mountains and revere work and endurance.  They are actually large because they don't protect the weak among them, so only the strongest survive.This would take care of any game balance worries you may have.</blockquote>