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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7174499" data-attributes="member: 4937">It depends on the setting and personal tastes.  Plenty of people find the Tolkien races wacky.  Personally, I don't much like the 'Star Wars Cantina' or Planescape style where there are scores of sentient races contently working alongside each other as if none of them found the other weird.   It works for, say Star Wars, but it has a sort of science fiction feel that I'm not going for in a fantasy.  But I would _play_ in such a setting quite happily if the DM was good.I'd be happy with any fantasy setting that had a small set of well constructed and conceived races - including a list that is inspired by Tolkien.I'm also happy with 'human only'.Or to put it another way, I'm pretty much happy with any list of races a GM hands me.Full disclosure, this is my current list of DM pre-approved PC races:Human Elf Dwarf Goblin Hobgoblin Half-ElfHalf-Goblin SidheChanglingPixieIdrethOrineI don't really trust players to actually RP anything but a human, but I do give them the option to reach for other races more out of hope than conviction.  Besides, players like mechanical variation.</blockquote>