D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

[Belen]

I give players a diverse range of options that are all explained in terms of how they fit. If it doesn’t fit, then they are planar in nature but have to contend with the odd person out.

I find it rare to see people choose anything other than humans, half-elves, elves or dwarves. I get the occasional halfling or gnome. My kid chose Dragonborn, once.

My games always have a curated list but usually a min of 15 options.

 

[Azzy]

No. And Thinking about "analogues" for what are fundamentally completely different deities is an element of Crawfordism-Perkinsism that I hope we leave behind.

Actually, it's a phenomena from the Real World™ when two different cultures tried to understand each other and equated their gods with the other culture's gods.