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    CF07 reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    That made me think of the Birthright settings use of Source Holdings which take the form of ancient henges, primeval forests, faerie...
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    CF07 reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    I still wish I'd managed to bring the old Midnight Realm game to the table. It was an offshoot of the Talislanta setting, using the same...
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    CF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human.
    In one of my campaign worlds, elder races fertility (or lack thereof) was explained by the presence of taint from a Far Realm gate to...
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    CF07 reacted to aco175's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    Perhaps long-lived races like elves only can have children a few times. Where humans can become pregnant each month, an elf might only...
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    CF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human.
    One of my campaign worlds has halflings as a dominant race/species in a pastiche of mostly 19th Century Europe. This world was quite...
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    CF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human.
    Gygax most definitely assumed his personal taste was objectively justified! He was infamous for arguing that way in Dragon; frequently...
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    CF07 reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    I don't worry too much about species' populations in my settings, unless it is going to be a specific plot point (like they are on the...
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    CF07 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    Yea, that tracks. In my own games, elves and dwarves are generally less common, but I do have rationales for that, and they are...
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    CF07 reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    I don't even think people prefer 1 anymore. Kinda feeling that "modern" setting have no problem with tons of elves and dwarves and them...
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    CF07 reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    Yeah but many post 1990s setting have elves and dwarves be very active. So there is a sense of dissonance.
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    CF07 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    I think, in the '70s, when fantasy fiction was still pretty niche, creating a human-dominated world was just a natural assumption. No...
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    CF07 reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    Why humans? D&D probably wouldn't have sold well if the main pitch of the game was "Buy this game and pretend to be an Orc..." Once...
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    CF07 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    I believe the implicit assumption is that as "elder races", the very essence of the dwarves and elves "as a people" are tired and simply...
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    CF07 reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Only Human with Like Like.
    Humans can reproduce a lot faster than Dwarves and Elves. Thats going to give the. A huge advantage in building population.
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    CF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.
    I agree with you. His world building wasn't as detailed or as deep as Tolkien's. In a lot of ways it might better for an RPG because I...
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