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But there are differences. Like Dwarves are poison resistant. For a nation where dwarves are the majority they would not be as much care about making sure that your food and the air is not poisonous. Which would be harder and difficult if you live mostly underground in caves or in mountains...

Class, Species, Culture, (replacing Subrace or Subspecies), Specialty (replacing Subclasses) and Background would be your major choices. Some Cultures and Specialty would be Species or Class locked as they would refer to specific features. Otherwise Culture and Specialty would be free to...

In my option there are a lot more difference between elf, dwarf, and human than dolphins. I think the idea that nonhuman humaniods are just humans in hats is boring and risks people using rl cultures.

Sure. But the point that was brought up was that it is very likely that species who have different actual biological aspects would create different cultures within a society that they inhabit with other species . A darkvision having nocturnal species might have a slightly different culture...

It's not the worse but it further diminishes the importance and mysticism of species. It's only weird because the features are big and impactful. Level Up's system is very cool. But it's Heritage features are too big for me and would require a whole lot of options for me. I'd want the Mountain...

My eyes work again. I meant the mechanics. Preserve Land is a game slowing, difficulty sapping, cheap feature one gets at low level. I thought we all had the discussion about cheap recharging THP already on the hardcore and design side of the community.

I wish I could give my first impressions but after reading the first bit of the Druid my eyes are stuck and rolled into my head. I'm typing this from memory.

The evidence is the point that these settings put the non-humans in Nations that are out of the way and also make their populations small and also make those people not travel. Those three things add up to PC not interacting with non-human nonviolent humaniods.

My point is that they aren't supposed to. That's why these setting hide their nonhuman people away and have their people not travel.

The issue isn't having human nations for human players. The silly part is adding elven, dwarven, orcish etc nations and shoving them in the corners where human players aren't supposed to visit/interact with them but allowing human players do be and roleplay elf, dwarven, orcish etc PCs from...

90% of those dwarfs and elves are PCS. The premise behind old school D&D, tokenesque settings, and setting described in this very thread is that what you walk into the average town, there will be very likely no dwarf or elf NPCs.

I'm not saying you can't make an RPG with tolkienesqe specieses. What I am saying is that it is objectively a bad idea to design a game where you're supposed to be able to play an elf but not ever see an elf. And do the same thing for a dwarf And do the same thing for a halfling And do the...

No. It's stating for what D&D is... Tolkienesqe Nonhuman Nations are objectively bad ideas if players are supposed to play and roleplay those species. We just like Tolkien and low fantasy humancentric setting so much we deny and ignore it. No. Elves in my world when I'm DM aren't...

Every elf life is precious and rare. Elves don't have many babies. Elf spend most of their time doing manual tasks and not evolving themselves. Player: I want to play an Elf Wizard Setting: No. The elves would rarely allow a fully trained elf wizard to leave their lands willingly to risk...

And my point is that's good ideas for a book. It's a terrible idea for a violent dungeoneering RPG. We are just used to it and unwilling to analyze it

Perhaps there are several levels of Human Centric Fantasy Settings Human Only There are only Humans Human Majority Humans are the most common species Other species are extinct, near extinct, or too primitive to affect the world Human Centric Humans nations are the most powerful and...

That's adventurers The issue is these nations of ancient races where no one ever leaves and the people do nothing nor leave or 500 years. No trade. No craft. No baby making .No diplomacy. No exploring. No expansion. Just thousands of dwarves, gnomes, and elves sitting around doing nothing for...

Well what i mean by "strong excuse" is an excuse that is somewhat tangible and visible in the setting AND more importantly useful for the player and DM. "I am 300 years old but I did jack all for 250 years" is okay for a book but not for an RPG where players can sit around and learn a spell...

Not only that, every elf teen in many settings is trained in a class. And every dwarf teen is indoctrinated to love hammers and axes and hate their racial enemies. If 17 year old be was taught attacks spells, told able monstrous threats to my people, and expected to be warehoused for 50-90...

That's still ~90 years with a full adult body and being treated like a child. I dunno. 90 years is a long time. Especially if the society doesn't put you on the front lines so you are constantly hanging with the other young adult elves... at home .. in the forest .. alone. You know. I'm...