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That's right. There are fantasy heartbreakers that have been heavily informed by tons of real world research. Almost no players will...

As usual I have to ask "Which of my fantasy worlds?" In my Etan game, humans are the majority race/species, following common TTRPG...

Well, no, you don't need strong excuses. You just need to play the "well, that's what fantasy looks like" card. Tolkien designed...

In Tolkien, the other reason for humans becoming dominant is that Fate Said So. In the third and fourth ages, the other races were...

It's tough for me to pick a favorite, but I did highly enjoy The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I agree that it could be a series of...

It's much weirder than that: some of the Orcs actually have upper class or public school accents in the novels. Thry aren't joined by...

It was always my favorite Narnia story, by far.

The latter, yes, the former less than yoy may assume: the Hibbit and Lird of the Rings continue to be hot sellers and, importantly, are...

Good insight. I never thought of it that way but yes, each of the books could quite well be thought of as different campaigns set in the...

Right - Dawn Treader could be fairly easily recontextualised as a series of modules chained together within a wider campaign arc, where...

D&D is indeed not Tolkien nor Middle Earth but your assumption that they would expend significantly more resources and want to grow...

I like my humans as underdogs so I prefer settings where they are either non-dominant or not powerful as a species. I find human centric...

Well there are a lot of things that could account for the difference. Humans may have a much higher fertility rate overall and be...

That's a really cool idea. In a lot of ways it might work with the notion of Chaos vs. Law a la Three Hearts and Three Lions, where the...

It might be interesting to have a setting where Human reproduction levels tend to decrease in higher background levels of magic and...