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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8179030" data-attributes="member: 23751">It's not world design at all.  It's game play.  Monsters are rare or the PC races of the world are dead.  PCs see a lot of them, because fun.  It would be boring if there were nothing much to encounter and fight, so they see an abnormal number of monsters.Ankhegs don't have hives and come by the thousands.  There are very few at a time.  And ants don't destroy towns, so why would something based on them?  I've never seen an empire by any of those races.  Drow and Yuan-Ti make their homes away from PC race civilization, and Hobgoblins would live in the wild, so away from most of civilizationCool.  There aren't 3 just wandering around, though.  There's probably not even 1 wandering around.I think you are overestimating how many monsters are in the world.  Perhaps because there are lots of monster books.  If monsters were as common as you are making out, there would be no civilization left.No, it really isn't.  It's not "full" of them at all.  They have to be very rare near civilization in order for civilization to have survived.</blockquote>