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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4152353" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Things I'm doing, have done, or am considering doing:</p><p></p><p>1) Planty Elves? I'm doing that now, but making them true Fey (ditto the other 2 "elf" races in my current campaign) and adding a touch of Minbari/Trill to it. If killed, they may be ressurected simply by replanting their core pod, which holds all of their memories...</p><p></p><p>2) I've also used elves the way Michael Moorcock recast them as his Melniboneans. IOW, they are truly in touch with magic like no other race, but their decadent, world-spanning, slavery practicing empire is in decline, with humanity emerging from their shadow.</p><p></p><p>3) More fun with elves- I've recast the war between Drow and the Surface elves in terms of the American Civil War, with the Drow playing the role of the South. The brutality of the Reconstruction Era was transformed into the events that actually drove the Drow underground.</p><p></p><p>4) Still more fun with elves: The elves are actually the aliens we know in pop culture as "Greys," especially the taller kind you'd see in Close Encounters. Their ship crashed, and is currently under an earthen mound- their mastery of multidimensional physics and hyperdrive/stasis technology distorts time & space, leading their guests- and the occasional test subject- to misperceive time's passage...or even emerge from the impossibly vast domain others call "Underhill" many decades later than when they entered it. Their holographic technology disguises their true nature.</p><p></p><p>4) Dwarves as a race of native elementals, sort of like diminuative Stonechildren. Dwarves are carved from stone and given life via a religious ceremony. Type of stone dictates the racial traits of the particular dwarf, and as "masterwork items," they can actually be directly enchanted like magic items...</p><p></p><p>5) I had an idea to use Warforged as Gnome-tech mecha (the Juggernaught ones, at least), but further refined them to be Inheritors- my FRPG equivalent to Daleks that house the psyches of psionically gifted Dwarves whose race was otherwise exterminated.</p><p></p><p>6) Inspired by Tarzan stories; by Charles Coleman Finley's series of short stories in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine (republished as The Prodigal Troll) about Maggot- a human raised by trolls; by Captain Carrot, a human raised by dwarves in Terry Pratchett's Diskworld novels; by Will Farrell's human raised by North Pole Elves comedy Elf- treating certain racial characteristics as <em>societal</em> ones, making "Half-" races a mere term of convenience (and occasionally of insult) for changelings & foundlings who were raised by races other than their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4152353, member: 19675"] Things I'm doing, have done, or am considering doing: 1) Planty Elves? I'm doing that now, but making them true Fey (ditto the other 2 "elf" races in my current campaign) and adding a touch of Minbari/Trill to it. If killed, they may be ressurected simply by replanting their core pod, which holds all of their memories... 2) I've also used elves the way Michael Moorcock recast them as his Melniboneans. IOW, they are truly in touch with magic like no other race, but their decadent, world-spanning, slavery practicing empire is in decline, with humanity emerging from their shadow. 3) More fun with elves- I've recast the war between Drow and the Surface elves in terms of the American Civil War, with the Drow playing the role of the South. The brutality of the Reconstruction Era was transformed into the events that actually drove the Drow underground. 4) Still more fun with elves: The elves are actually the aliens we know in pop culture as "Greys," especially the taller kind you'd see in Close Encounters. Their ship crashed, and is currently under an earthen mound- their mastery of multidimensional physics and hyperdrive/stasis technology distorts time & space, leading their guests- and the occasional test subject- to misperceive time's passage...or even emerge from the impossibly vast domain others call "Underhill" many decades later than when they entered it. Their holographic technology disguises their true nature. 4) Dwarves as a race of native elementals, sort of like diminuative Stonechildren. Dwarves are carved from stone and given life via a religious ceremony. Type of stone dictates the racial traits of the particular dwarf, and as "masterwork items," they can actually be directly enchanted like magic items... 5) I had an idea to use Warforged as Gnome-tech mecha (the Juggernaught ones, at least), but further refined them to be Inheritors- my FRPG equivalent to Daleks that house the psyches of psionically gifted Dwarves whose race was otherwise exterminated. 6) Inspired by Tarzan stories; by Charles Coleman Finley's series of short stories in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine (republished as The Prodigal Troll) about Maggot- a human raised by trolls; by Captain Carrot, a human raised by dwarves in Terry Pratchett's Diskworld novels; by Will Farrell's human raised by North Pole Elves comedy Elf- treating certain racial characteristics as [i]societal[/i] ones, making "Half-" races a mere term of convenience (and occasionally of insult) for changelings & foundlings who were raised by races other than their own. [/QUOTE]
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