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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8330668" data-attributes="member: 59082">Hmm, so many ways to go with this - and it really depends upon what sort of themes I'd like to play with. Rather than adapt my current homebrew to those criteria, I'd probably start afresh and build a new world. For my default setting and style, elves, dwarves, and halflings are intrinsic to the "classic" feel. If I didn't have them, I'd either: A) recreate them with similar races, if I wanted classic D&D (e.g. sidhe instead of elves, delvers instead of dwarves, etc); or B) go for something more heavily themed, that was different enough from classic D&D to not need those races.For instance, I might start with the genasi as the core race. Maybe humans colonized a war with strong elemental energies and, over millenia, gradually mutated into genasi, depending upon their lived. So genasi would essentially be the descendents of humans.Other races could be variants on elemental/primal themes - maybe an elfy/gnomy forest people, a stony/dwarfy/gianty mountain people. Etc.I love aasimar, especially the "amnesiac wanderer" trope of 4E, so I'd put them in.I'm always a fan of the gith, so maybe in relatively recent history, the -zerai and -yanki's war extended to this world, so now the other races are trying to survive underneath the githyanki empire, perhaps working with the githzerai in rebellion.So for the above, I'm going with: genasi, aasimar, forest people, mountain people, githzerai, githyanki.</blockquote>

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