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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 3976106" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p><strong>Use what you want, where you want.</strong></p><p></p><p>Think of how you want these all to fit together. For example, in my homebrew there are naturally occurring portals to other worlds that come and go over the centuries through the elemental planes. Humans, dwarves, elves, etc. have come to the land through these (though they didn't know it originally.)</p><p></p><p>So I have an sidhe court, which is an elven demi-plane that's currently close and portals to it can be opened. Interestingly, it's not the plane where the elves of the land ("the Lost") originally came from, but many are going there and pledging allegiance anyway just to be back in a court and not stuck on the material.</p><p></p><p>One thing I see people doing is multiple flavors of human races, and then one generic feel for each other race. Instead mix and match. Maybe your halflings fit the Native American mold you were talking about. Or even mix several of your ideas from above, mashing Oriental and Native American thoughts together. (For example, my Hobgoblins are Socialists with a Caste structure (!!) with a strong lawful neutral druid presence that think the best way to protect animals and plants is to domesticate them, my kobolds are a chaotic and fast changing meritocracy, the gnolls Native American-esqe with a healthy dose of hyena, orcs have multiple cultures as do humans, and the halflings are bigots that have closed the borders to the other races and use lethal force to keep them that way.</p><p></p><p>Mix and match fun things from various cultures you like, but don't keep them recognizable, instead make them wholly your own.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>=Blue(23)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 3976106, member: 20564"] [b]Use what you want, where you want.[/b] Think of how you want these all to fit together. For example, in my homebrew there are naturally occurring portals to other worlds that come and go over the centuries through the elemental planes. Humans, dwarves, elves, etc. have come to the land through these (though they didn't know it originally.) So I have an sidhe court, which is an elven demi-plane that's currently close and portals to it can be opened. Interestingly, it's not the plane where the elves of the land ("the Lost") originally came from, but many are going there and pledging allegiance anyway just to be back in a court and not stuck on the material. One thing I see people doing is multiple flavors of human races, and then one generic feel for each other race. Instead mix and match. Maybe your halflings fit the Native American mold you were talking about. Or even mix several of your ideas from above, mashing Oriental and Native American thoughts together. (For example, my Hobgoblins are Socialists with a Caste structure (!!) with a strong lawful neutral druid presence that think the best way to protect animals and plants is to domesticate them, my kobolds are a chaotic and fast changing meritocracy, the gnolls Native American-esqe with a healthy dose of hyena, orcs have multiple cultures as do humans, and the halflings are bigots that have closed the borders to the other races and use lethal force to keep them that way. Mix and match fun things from various cultures you like, but don't keep them recognizable, instead make them wholly your own. Cheers, =Blue(23) [/QUOTE]
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