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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8328315" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I've had a persistent campaign world since .. well forever in D&D terms.  I also don't want a ton of races because I want them each to have a distinct culture and feel, at least to the extent that we can ever make non-human sentient creatures feel truly different.So, yeah, I use the basics.  Human, high or wood elf*, dwarf, halfling, half-orc, gnomes. I've made a few exceptions from time to time when the option could pass as human or some other existing race and there was a cool story but those were one-offs.  In my 4E campaign, eladrin were so different from other elves that they were originally Sidhe that had fled the feywild and had been stripped of most of their power.I know most DMs probably don't do this, but I'm not just going to plop down a new kingdom of dragonborn in the middle of my world because they never existed in previous campaigns.  If someone really wanted to play one I'd probably discuss options with the group and come up with an origin story arc and try to tie it in to previous in-world events.I don't see a particular need to create custom races for my campaign.  There's nothing wrong with it, just that by sticking to "traditional" races most people already have a decent concept of what they're like and I can just tweak them to make them more interesting and to fit into the world.  I don't assume that I could make a race more interesting or compelling than the ones we already have.*Drow that reject Lollth or other evil gods and leave the underdark are no longer drow.</blockquote>

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