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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...

An interesting point was brought up in the What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? thread earlier this week...

A lot of what @StrollofTurtle posted is also what I feel and love about BattleTech. I will post my own rpg for this soon and...

longtime Battltech fan here, these are my thoughts on the RPGs... OK, Mechwarrior first edition -this is better thought of as a...

We more or less came to the same conclusion. That the DrSt mechanic was really meant only to be busted out when all of the characters...

I don't know where you found that... but as a kid who bought the Jade Falcon book the day it came out because it was green with a...

Indeed! I also think "how to make a setting and choice of characters matter" = beyond stats, skills and tasks. like... actually have...