What Creatures Populate the World

What sentient beings populate the world? One of the joys of fantasy is the ability to pretend you are a pointy haired being who dances with trees; a stout dour earth worker, or any number of other possibilities.

One of the curses is that all the nations feel about the same - there's one elf nation, one dwarf nation, etc., - humans of course have a multitude of nations. As I said before, I'm going to try and limit the variety of the "monsters" in play, however, I'm also going to try and widen what's a permitted "player race" - 13th Age makes this easy by limiting what benefits races get inherent to the game. I may widen and tweak that as appropriate as the game continues onward.

Campaign Idea: Banished!

"For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death." ~Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 3

I think my next campaign pitch, when I'm ready, will be about playing exiles. Inspired by colonial era, and in particular, at least the mythos of Australia as a land where Britain dumped its malcontents and criminals to get them out of the country causing problems. The land was brutal and nasty and actively vicious to the settlers, with flora, fauna, and natives all hostile to the incoming settlers.

Yes, this is hyperbolic exaggeration, but it is at least a nugget of the inspiration.