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Games with a lot of PC-races and the Temptation of Going non-human

Started by RPGPundit, April 06, 2010, 05:51:41 PM

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Spike

#75
April 13, 2010, 10:03:40 PM
Quote from: Koltar;373404What if you're just sick of seeing Dwarves and Elves all the time?

What the fuck?

 Has anybody ever gone really original with a fantasy setting?


What about tossing a "Sci Fi" humanoid race into a Fantasy setting or vice versa?

- Ed C.

Lots of people have. You know why no one is talking about them?


Because they suck. Truly original shit is rare and frequently 'too weird to live'.

Perdido Street Station is up there: It had a flash in the pan popularity and a few ultra-hipster fan wankers but damn few people read it and even fewer remember anything about it except that 'it was weird'.  

Without familiar touchstones its not worth the effort.
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Aos

#76
April 13, 2010, 10:31:11 PM
Here's some stuff in that vein that doesn't suck-
I don't care about popularity.
Dark Crystal
Kamandi
Den of Earth
WAll-E
Wizard of Oz

I'm sure I could think of more, but no one told me there as going to be a quiz.
Also the setting, and the cast of Perdido Street Station is dominated by humans, regardless, I vastly prefer  The Scar.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Shazbot79

#77
April 13, 2010, 10:32:04 PM
Quote from: Koltar;373404What if you're just sick of seeing Dwarves and Elves all the time?

What the fuck?

 Has anybody ever gone really original with a fantasy setting?


What about tossing a "Sci Fi" humanoid race into a Fantasy setting or vice versa?

- Ed C.

I have to admit...though the names, physical features, stats, and cultural minutiae may change, most fantasy races boil down to these five.

Of course the Borg might make an interesting addition to your D&D game.

I've toyed with the idea of using the Fraal from Alternity in my games...but I decided to just use the Gith races instead.
Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!

Shazbot79

#78
April 13, 2010, 10:44:48 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;373374I'm not against the idea of there being freak-races around, just of games that create a plethora of them, make them statistically superior to humans, and then at the same time present settings where Humans are supposed to be the vast dominant species of the area where PCs are meant to play and all the aforementioned races are super-rare or virtually extinct (neither of which are qualities the Half-mermen have in The Setting, by the way).

RPGPundit

I don't really think that the vast majority of gamers out their create characters based on mechanical superiority.

My assumption is that most of us form an idea of the character in our heads and then paint a portrait of them using the game rules, choosing options that are thematic rather than what is superior.

Even the cats on WotC's "How to make a character that can one-shot god" boards do this most of the time.

Quote from: Spike;373440Perdido Street Station is up there: It had a flash in the pan popularity and a few ultra-hipster fan wankers but damn few people read it and even fewer remember anything about it except that 'it was weird'.  

Without familiar touchstones its not worth the effort.

I'm a huge fan of that book.

The thing that sticks out most in my mind is the deft mashing of genres, rich descriptive language and one of the most satisfying endings I've ever read.

Perdido Street Station was simply tits, as was the Scar and The Iron Council.
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Aos

#79
April 13, 2010, 10:50:22 PM
Gamma World
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Benoist

#80
April 13, 2010, 10:59:25 PM
I love hobbits. Probably because I am one.
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