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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9812311" data-attributes="member: 710">I think one of the very important aspects is that the culture must also be somewhat relevant or useful for a game. A complex Elven culture in an area far off the main locations of interest is of limited use when you play an Elf. It might inform some of your preconceived notions ,but you aren't going to interact with the actual culture anyway. So it's more important that there is a good idea on how Elves fit into the the main locations of interest, how do they fit into the local culture(s). And I think that a setting dedicated to 5E should offer this for all core races. You can still have also far away Elven or Dragonborn lands, and your particular Elf or Dragonborn might still actually be an outsider at the locations of interest, but even then, you have automatic connections because NPCs and the other PCs will have assumptions based on the prevalent cultures. And if you want a true outsider that no one in locations of interest has any idea about, you can still play, I dunno, a non-PHB race (working with the DM to work out something, of course).</blockquote>