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We played a AD&D game were we were all avatars of different demi-god we had come up with trying to carve out a new domain for ourselves. Each player had at least 12 pages of notes on their faith, their minions and followers, religious holidays and practices, treaties with the other gods and...

I don't really do much significant in the RPG scene, I GM at a convention regularly, and I've helped with editing and writing in a couple of Call of Cthulhu scenarios, but I wouldn't call myself a RPG writer. Still in the scenarios I run I always make an effort to have a diverse group of player...

I don't really get this poll. I picked "I prefer a game where no character occurs" but I don't mind a character death every level. What I really don't like is a character resurrection at all. Death has to mean something. Hence I'd prefer characters no to die, since they aren't coming back...

You could have a race like periodical cicadas, that come into existence only infrequently, and rather than every 13 or 17 year, centuries between so they become myths (otherwise they might be tackled in their dormant state). Then when they a born they need to desperately gather resources before...

If you are interested I highly recommend the Kafer Sourcebook for 2300AD. Very much. Necessity breeds invention. The necessity being to win. Kafer's were the enemy not a PC race. But yeah it did encourage the players to act fast, and withdraw quickly.

Your initial statement that the trope of an entire species sharing a warlike quality is a tired one seems at odds with your request for us to come up with a "warlike people".

That's generally how I've always seen orcs and goblinoid races, breeding and maturing much faster than humans so constantly needing to expand or control their population by fighting among themselves. Warlike out of necessity, culture and nature.

The Kafer's in 2300AD have a physiology that rather than releasing a adrenaline to make them faster and stronger when threatened they release a hormone that speeds up the neural process and makes them more intelligent. If exposed to the hormone over long periods then the effects last longer. So...

Because it is meant to be reflecting heroic fantasy so you play the good guys and not the bad guys.

No they aren't they are a fictional construct, they aren't real. Now saying that, I will give you the nature of orcs has changed since they became a playable race, thanks to games like WoW. I suspect this is the main issue, people want different things out of them now than they were original...

Orcs are representing this aspect of all humanity not a particular race, I always find it concerning when people say these features only reflect one particular race. Yes racist have used similar terms used to describe orcs (brutal, savage, etc) to describe particular races but that's because...

Yes because elves and orcs served polar opposite uses in fantasy fiction. Orcs were there to explore the distilled worst aspects of humanity, what man would be like without the laws and rules of civilization to keep his base instincts in check. So clearly the half-orcs were going to be the...

Can I ask what the problem with that is? Clearly rape in warfare is horrific, that is a problem. Unfortunately it is something that is very common in times of war, either due to a break down in discipline or intentionally as a tool of terror and subjugation as reports from the Ukraine show us...

So one didn't use the 2024 rules and one was just a paint job on a elf.

Peoples tastes aren't all the same and fashions change. I wasn't implying that one size fits all, however markets reflect trends and fashions of the times they are in. Is it any wonder that D&D catered mainly to mainly men when they were 85 to 95% of the audience? If you look at the art of...

Because X sells, and the market reflects what people buy. People like idealised fantasies, which might well be impossible beauty standards.

I would like to know how you would tell the difference? If you look at images of sexualised images of men aimed at women (such as the covers of romance novels, or Magic Mike/Chippendales, they are frequently very similar if not identical to what gets classed as power fantasies, for men...

Yeah but if you look at how much flesh the men he was painting at the time, it wasn't that he was sexist, just that he sexualised and idealised the human form male or female.

Think there also needs to be a meaningful chance of success...

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