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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6416452" data-attributes="member: 40166">In some sense, language can be used a proxy for culture. There are around 5,000 of those in the real world, and likely many more before colonialism, nationalism, and then mass communications and high-speed/long-distance travel. There's basically one Amazonian tribes for every 2,500 native Amazonians. Among goblins, who don't have writing or horses or sailing, I'd expect that you'd be tripping over a new culture of goblins everytime you weren't running into exactly the same goblins.Races (which means something a lot different from race in the real world) don't have any real-world analog. Still, if you want to provide PC options, it's easy to stick a whole bunch of races out there somewhere. Marco Polo brought back all sorts of legends from China, and others wrote fabricated travel reports that were accepted as fact that had many more; it was hard to dismiss whatever anyone was saying about China at that time, so if the kitsune comes from across the sea, I don't think anyone has anything to complain about. Also, extraplanar visitors or spelljammers provide a great excuse for one of just about anything.In practice, I've run Golarion, with most of the races available. To copy from my last game:I didn't make a list of what non-PC races I used, but lurking behind the scenes were all the kitchen-sink Golarion races.I do have the appreciation for neat (in the sense of orderly) campaign settings. Krynn sort of annoyed me when I was first reading it, as several more races popped out of nowhere. My current draft campaign setting has for civilized races humans, kobolds, elves, dwarflings, mountain dwarves, halflings, hill dwarves and gnomes. Gnomes are Golarion-style gnomes, whereas dwarflings are gnomes from a different tradition, where they're related to dwarves and cobble and tinker, somewhat less dourly then the dwarves. It's a closed setting, but when running it, I suppose I could permit someone of another race to wash up on shore from parts unknown if someone really wanted. And then there's monsters, which are things of chaos in this setting, and I wouldn't feel guilty about tossing just about anything at the players, the more bizarre and grotesque as they got farther into the Wild Lands.</blockquote>

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