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Message: <blockquote data-quote="saviirkad" data-source="post: 9803967" data-attributes="member: 7054355">When I think of a circus troupe, it's a collection of individuals who are bright, colorful, eccentric in their movements and behavior, and generally each member fits that description while still being very unique to each other (the acrobat being unique to the strongman to the clown, etc.). But what makes it jarring isn't that alone, it's the fact that it's not the norm everywhere else. To the point where if I saw someone from a circus troupe outside of the circus, it's a safe assumption that they would not be in that get-up nor putting on a show with their circus troupe eccentrics.Which is why, for me personally, the most equivalent experience I can think of within D&D would be coming across monoculturism writ large. Some backwater town, sure, but any community of sufficient size is probably going to be mostly circus troupe. I mean I'm not opposed to playing an all-elf party visiting a huge all-dwarf metropolis, it's just that this is when I would get that "circus troupe" feeling more than I would if we were a party of an aarakocra, genasi, warforged and a changeling in a Waterdeep like city with a dozen different species that qualify as having a significant population there.</blockquote>