Eventually people looking for adventurers got wise to what worked and what didn't. What you really wanted, if you needed a problem solved, was the most heterogenous group possible, misfits from every species, across the spectrum of the world, an absolute mish-mash of four to six individuals who all seemed out of theme with each other. A proper adventuring party had a certain sort of look to them. They had backstories.
And of course, the adventurers eventually got wise to these hiring patterns. Maybe they would call their human a half-elf, or if they had a second dwarf, pretend that he was a halfling. Any adventuring party would have diverse backstories ready to go, and they weren't above costuming. With a little bit of effort, a normal human man from a boring village could dress up like an archwizard on a quest for revenge.
Eventually they were at equilibrium, with adventuring parties pretending that they were more diverse than they actually were in order to get quests, and the people giving out the quests not believing a word of it. But it stayed a part of the hiring process, because what you didn't want was an adventuring party that wasn't even willing to put in the effort to appear to be one of the good ones.
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