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<blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 1069864" data-attributes="member: 96">I guess that depends - are they supposed to be new, unusual and imaginative, or are they supposed to be archetypal (like the core races)?&nbsp; I figured the latter, so something really strange/unusual/alien would actually detract from the purpose of the AU races.&nbsp; If you want an elf in D&amp;D, then you probably want the base elf to be woodsy and magical (not slash-and-burn farmers), and you want dwarves to live underground and mine things (not live in treehouses and be gourmet chefs).&nbsp; Certain settings can change that, but they only work well because the base is there.&nbsp; Similarly, if you want lion-people in D&amp;D, you probably want strong, individualistic, proud warrior types, and not something weird but original like a race of pacifistic philosophers.(Giants aren't quite the archetypical giants, it's true - unless you go back to, say, Prometheus, but calling a race 'titans' when they start out as size M seems wrong.)J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drnuncheon, post: 1069864, member: 96"] I guess that depends - are they supposed to be new, unusual and imaginative, or are they supposed to be archetypal (like the core races)? I figured the latter, so something [i]really[/i] strange/unusual/alien would actually detract from the purpose of the AU races. If you want an elf in D&D, then you probably want the base elf to be woodsy and magical (not slash-and-burn farmers), and you want dwarves to live underground and mine things (not live in treehouses and be gourmet chefs). Certain settings can change that, but they only work well because the base is there. Similarly, if you want lion-people in D&D, you probably want strong, individualistic, proud warrior types, and not something weird but original like a race of pacifistic philosophers. (Giants aren't quite the archetypical giants, it's true - unless you go back to, say, Prometheus, but calling a race 'titans' when they start out as size M seems wrong.) J [/QUOTE]

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