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<blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 45230" data-attributes="member: 2480">Down with the Demi-HumansWell, demi-humans as they were once called. When I started running D&amp;D3e I decided a new campaign setting (the Shattered World) would have very few intelligent races: Humans, Orcs (of various sub-breeds), Goblins (and their kin), Cacodaemons and Illithids. To this I have added shapechanger breeds, based on humans or goblins. Not that there never were Elves, Dwarves or Halflings, just that they are now extinct, wiped out in the Cataclysm that created the Shattered World. And it's worked just fine, with everyone so far playing Humans, but meeting other races in a number of guises, e.g. as slaves, as second-class citizens, as 'monsters' and as civilised people in their own right.Why? Well, I just find the ever increasing number of races too hard to stomach. They just end up as so many ciphers for different cultures and behaviours, when a smarter DM could use humans or goblins to the same effect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deadguy, post: 45230, member: 2480"] [b]Down with the Demi-Humans[/b] Well, demi-humans as they were once called. When I started running D&D3e I decided a new campaign setting (the Shattered World) would have very few intelligent races: Humans, Orcs (of various sub-breeds), Goblins (and their kin), Cacodaemons and Illithids. To this I [i]have[/i] added shapechanger breeds, based on humans or goblins. Not that there never were Elves, Dwarves or Halflings, just that they are now extinct, wiped out in the Cataclysm that created the Shattered World. And it's worked just fine, with everyone so far playing Humans, but meeting other races in a number of guises, e.g. as slaves, as second-class citizens, as 'monsters' and as civilised people in their own right. Why? Well, I just find the ever increasing number of races too hard to stomach. They just end up as so many ciphers for different cultures and behaviours, when a smarter DM could use humans or goblins to the same effect. [/QUOTE]

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