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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5118152" data-attributes="member: 58197">I recently decided that the way to build my settings was to come up with the core concept of the setting, then include whatever races flowed naturally from that.I'm currently toying with a setting idea where the concept is "eladrin versus tiefling" - the eladrin are an ancient, decadent sorceror race who once reigned supreme (think Melniboneans), and the tieflings are humans who made a deal with the powers of Hell to throw off eladrin rule.Obviously this setting would have eladrin, tieflings, and humans. Other races include goblins and hobgoblins (the devious and inventively cruel minions of the eladrin, created by them from humans); orcs and half-orcs (tiefling-created counterparts to goblins, made to be the perfect soldiers); minotaurs (results of botched attempts to re-create the transformation that led to the first tieflings); and half-elves (eladrin/human hybrids, mostly resulting from male eladrin sleeping with their female human slaves).Currently undecided on including elves as the savage primitive precursors of the eladrin.Dwarves, halflings, gnomes, et cetera, have no particular place in this setting and thus are out the window.</blockquote>