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<blockquote data-quote="Guang" data-source="post: 7527091" data-attributes="member: 6779420"><p>Thanks for the replies. </p><p>Dannyalcatraz, I'm thinking more archetypes than settings. Elves and dwarves can't be the only ones that have kingdoms, art, culture, history, wars, and so on, just fighting bad elves and bad dwarves, having no need for humans in their stories most of the time as either friends or enemies, can they? I thought maybe lizardfolk, but the best lizardfolk civilization I've seen comes from Doctor Who, which would be tough to transtion over to fantasy. Then I thought maybe some kind of merfolk, but same problem - seems the best choices are the seven nations of aquaman or the gungans of jarjar. </p><p></p><p>DMMike, thanks for the Orsimer suggestion. I never got into the Elder Scrolls, and am enjoying reading up on them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, and I've run into instances of each that I absolutely love. But an independent civilization for either of them? I haven't yet run into it. I mean, if you even just do word association: elf city.....elf nation....elf army - no problem. Dwarf city....dwarf empire...dwarf army, also no problem. Halfling city, nation, army.....closest I've seen is The Shire, and that was protected from afar, nowhere close to being independent. Maybe something could be done combining all the "little people" into one people, like Fantasycraft? Seems a start, but not sure where to go with it.</p><p></p><p>I just keep thinking there's got to be a way to have a fourth "core race" people have powerful, educated, confident deep "old country" roots. There's gotta be something archetypal I'm missing that's not evil like snakepeople.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guang, post: 7527091, member: 6779420"] Thanks for the replies. Dannyalcatraz, I'm thinking more archetypes than settings. Elves and dwarves can't be the only ones that have kingdoms, art, culture, history, wars, and so on, just fighting bad elves and bad dwarves, having no need for humans in their stories most of the time as either friends or enemies, can they? I thought maybe lizardfolk, but the best lizardfolk civilization I've seen comes from Doctor Who, which would be tough to transtion over to fantasy. Then I thought maybe some kind of merfolk, but same problem - seems the best choices are the seven nations of aquaman or the gungans of jarjar. DMMike, thanks for the Orsimer suggestion. I never got into the Elder Scrolls, and am enjoying reading up on them. Yes, and I've run into instances of each that I absolutely love. But an independent civilization for either of them? I haven't yet run into it. I mean, if you even just do word association: elf city.....elf nation....elf army - no problem. Dwarf city....dwarf empire...dwarf army, also no problem. Halfling city, nation, army.....closest I've seen is The Shire, and that was protected from afar, nowhere close to being independent. Maybe something could be done combining all the "little people" into one people, like Fantasycraft? Seems a start, but not sure where to go with it. I just keep thinking there's got to be a way to have a fourth "core race" people have powerful, educated, confident deep "old country" roots. There's gotta be something archetypal I'm missing that's not evil like snakepeople. [/QUOTE]
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