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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uta-napishti" data-source="post: 9633144" data-attributes="member: 7026422">I have a similar approach to [USER=11]@el-remmen[/USER] .  I just trim off species that don't fit the theme / history of the world for whatever reason.  There is then a list for players to choose from.  I will negotiate if someone really wants to play something that isn't on the list.  But we have to find a place for what they want to play in the fiction of the world.  An example:   Right now I have a campaign in a world that is not planar i.e. there are no celestials, fiends etc.. only the prime material plane exists.  It is a very magic rich material plane with all kinds of strange creatures twisted by magical forces.  Now, the impact of that reality on player choice is present because there aren't any aasimar or tieflings -- again since extra-planar influence makes no sense.  BUT one of my players has a thing for playing characters with horns... So we made a deal and she is playing a human mechanically, who is from a region where magic seeping in over centuries has cause the population to grow horns.  We are both happy, she is rocking horns, and the world stays consistent.The second thing I do is condense/blend peoples that my players aren't dying to play into families with shared origins.  Gnome and halflings are just all smallfolk, a branch of humans with some custom mechanics.  Dragonborn and Lizardmen are the same thing as each other. Most giants are just the 1% of humans born with "immensity" etc...and are playable with goliath mechanics. I find it easier to have a few cultures and origin stories of peoples that diversify into various forms rather than thinking up one per playable D&D species.Otherwise, you can just pick some cultures and origin stories from various published settings and toss them together into your world.  It's the curation of the combinations and what you leave out that makes your world unique.</blockquote>

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