How many races do you have?

[CrimsonGenius]

I’m sticking with three with maybe fourth race in isolatation. But three is the ideal for me. Is there such thing as too many and too little?

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

I have 4.
One each for land, sky, and sea.
And one that rules all three.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Lots and lots. In "Strange Awakening" and the Jack Diamond stories, there is a "hidden" world alongside the normal one - shapeshifters and magical beings have lived there for as long as there have been humans, and there are other creatures from Outside. But they are based on superhero comic books, where aliens, extradimensional beings, literal gods, and humans (or "once-human-but-maybe-no-longers) who can kick the @$$e$ of all of them are standard so...

In "Between Worlds" there are literally infinite numbers. So far, I have only dealt with humans, Aelfor (and hybrids) and dragons, but there are several others (minotaurs and orcs at least get mentioned), but one of the characters has the ability to travel anywhere, so anything is possible.

It depends on the world and the story.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Five, but some can be further divided

1) Humans
2) Beastmen, which is divided into Canus (dog), Ursus (bear), Isidus (fish), Insetus (insect) and Serpentinus (dragons)
3) Demons, which is divided into goblins, orcs, ghouls, succubi and incubi, vampires, and werewolves
4) Elves, which is divided into forest, Chersean and mud
5) Dwarves

 

[Seaspecter]

Thousands of them.

 

[JayMark]

For my fantasies, multiple. Do half and partial mixes count? I'm also guilty of throwing everything into my worlds. It would take a while to make a list and explain them all. I need to do better with my glossarys.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Oh wait - assumed this followed the AD&D/D&D (former, changed for the latest edition) definition of races. Keep forgetting "sports" is a valid genre. So far, have not had any formal races in any stories.

 

[HypnoticNovels]

Yes.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Too many.

 

[Iamnotabot]

Three: gods, beasts, xuman(yes, it's just human with one change in the letter)

Anything else is a sub species deprive from one of the three.

 

[georgelee5786]

1.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

Races? Many, but they're under the beastkin species.

Species, not race.

Humans are species as well, so there's that. Though I have two that's considered a race since they fall under the demihuman species, which were The Ascended and The Genesis

 

[georgelee5786]

Races? Many, but they're under the beastkin species.

Species, not race.

Humans are species as well, so there's that. Though I have two that's considered a race since they fall under the demihuman species, which were The Ascended and The Genesis

Nerd

 

[HelloHound]

about five, not counting mixed individual groups

 

[Hoshino]

I can think of A total of 24²(576) races
But i have only one race and that is, Sub-Human (Micröshcalt)

 

[Clo]

I have 12 playable ones (available to the protagonists), but they're split it in 6 big families, each with 2 takes on it.

Humans (normal vs beefy), Dragons (human-like or dragon-like), Bunnies (human-like or bunny-like), Cats (human-like or cat-like), Elves (tolkienesque or anime-style), Dwarves (and halflings).

There are plenty of non-playable ones, like Lizardmen, Harpies, Gnolls.

 

[beast_regards]

I wanted to answer on the r-question, but then:

Then I had a strange feelings.

It was almost like millions of Twitter people screamed in unison.

So, instead, I have to ask

Three: gods, beasts, xuman(yes, it's just human with one change in the letter)

why not cumans?

 

[Deleted member 172779]

I didn't count. Maybe over 100 different races across the galaxy? Mostly from my failed/forgotten novel drafts (with most of them got deleted due "sensitive" purposes, enough to get Twitter (X) users angry).

 

[Daydreamers]

1

 

[aToTeT]

I have a brother who is with many races, every year. All over the world, he has his favourite races, and the world has many races for he and his husband to share in; my brother has never beaten his spouse, he is beaten with every race.

I do not race.