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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5558483" data-attributes="member: 4937">Way back in 1e when I was thinking about having my own game world for the first time, I started thinking about how many elves were proliferating at the time (snow elves, high elves, drow elves, gray elves, wild elves, wood elves, sea elves, etc.) and how many green skinned bad guy races there were and how many random animal men races there were and I decided that I wanted to simplify.  Orcs were chopped.  Goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears were explicitly bundled as a single race with a large degree of physical variation.  Out went gnomes and halflings.  Out also went things like Norkers, Flinds, and so forth were the race existed seemingly primarily to put different HD entries in the table.  Instead, I became an earlier adopter of 'monsters can have class levels' (though in my early incarnations, 'monster' was a class).  But over time, I started adding races to the game to suit my taste.   The official list of PC races is now:Faerie, SidheFaerie, ChanglingFaerie, PixieGoblinHobgoblinElfHumanOrineDrawfIdrethAdditionally, you can play Forest Dwarf, Wild Elf, or Human Pygmy as a racial variant.Encounters with humanoids that are not a PC race tend to be very rare in my game.  Gnolls, Lizardfolk, and the aquatic races are by far the most common exceptions.   PC races are strongly emphasized.  By doing this I hope to make the race more meaningful than the list of attribute modifiers it provides.</blockquote>

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