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That's way too much stuff to read, can I just play an Elf like in Lord Of The Rings?

Indeed! As a way of explaining my purpose there = there was a thread that asked about what game you could play for 60 sessions or...

Lot's of interesting comments here... my thoughts are now scattered in different directions since each makes sense in its own way...

I came into this thread expecting more conversation about making a setting that matters to the people playing the game. And so that's...

OMG! Someone else knows of Freebooters on the Frontier! yay!!! That is such a masterclass game! Sorry for aside, just gushing :P

This is a bit of an aside, One of the coolest PBTA “knowledge” moves is from Freebooters on the Frontier: “Establish When you...

This too, kinda going along @RenleyRenfield 's point WRT Tengu. I'll contrast this with a Forged in the Dark game I've run called...

To circle back around to lore broadly, I am a "shallow lore" person -- both in settings I prefer to play in, and when I create worlds...

For me (trying to explain my own insanity here, lol) , and this is just my own thoughts of why Forgotten Realms/Golarion very much made...

A thought here though = since the question was against favor of generic fantasy, the idea is that "slapping on some more races like...

This isn't a valid point in any way. Every argument ever made always comes with a caveat of "there is some exception somewhere." And...

Rightly so! That was really my point. A player who chooses "elf" as a heritage in a Tolkienesque world, without using that character...

Could it be more... "if you are playing MERP" then tolkien is not a trope, it is the 'thing', its origin. but if you are using 'elves'...

Well, let's consider this idea for a sec. One of the earliest replies in this thread was someone quickly jumping to the defense of Lord...

To kind of expand on what my thoughts were and to explore concepts of gaming in general for discussion = The depiction of non-human...