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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8033215" data-attributes="member: 6777454">I wonder which type of world would work better....One that is like Star Trek where races mostly live separate and are very much antagonistic, everyone has their &quot;hat&quot; which pretty much defines their culture-- but while their cultures might have some very serious negative aspects, they also aren't entirely without virtues and individuals can be quite sympathetic. Enemies are usually lone actors or the wars come about due to stubbornness on both sides, an impass that just can't be negotiated past until one or the other suffers a tragedy great enough that the old wounds are forgotten.... So make them more like Vulcans, Andorans, Klingons, Orions, Romulans, Ferangi, Bajorins, Cardassians, etc.-- So world peace wouldn't be impossible-- it would just be very difficult to get and even more difficult to maintain.Or would it be better to be like Star Wars, where you have all sorts of alien creatures that are mingling freely everywhere and any defining traits that any but the most isolated races have are so subdued that it isn't really possible to really have much in the way of clear stereotypes about them. So the races would be more like Rodians, Twileks, Ithorians, Devorians, Duros, Wookies, etc. -- basically there would be hardly any inner-race conflict because the real battles are between the good faction and the bad faction which are both primarily human.The former obviously gives way more opportunity to really give the race a lot of overall traits that would shape what an individual from that race would be like, the later would make race hardly anything more than just how the character looks.For the next D&amp;D world-- which method would be preferable? Both would allow for all races to be heroes or villains, but is it better for race to very much inform what a character is like or to make it more of a surface-level aspect?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 8033215, member: 6777454"] I wonder which type of world would work better.... One that is like Star Trek where races mostly live separate and are very much antagonistic, everyone has their "hat" which pretty much defines their culture-- but while their cultures might have some very serious negative aspects, they also aren't entirely without virtues and individuals can be quite sympathetic. Enemies are usually lone actors or the wars come about due to stubbornness on both sides, an impass that just can't be negotiated past until one or the other suffers a tragedy great enough that the old wounds are forgotten.... So make them more like Vulcans, Andorans, Klingons, Orions, Romulans, Ferangi, Bajorins, Cardassians, etc.-- So world peace wouldn't be impossible-- it would just be very difficult to get and even more difficult to maintain. Or would it be better to be like Star Wars, where you have all sorts of alien creatures that are mingling freely everywhere and any defining traits that any but the most isolated races have are so subdued that it isn't really possible to really have much in the way of clear stereotypes about them. So the races would be more like Rodians, Twileks, Ithorians, Devorians, Duros, Wookies, etc. -- basically there would be hardly any inner-race conflict because the real battles are between the good faction and the bad faction which are both primarily human. The former obviously gives way more opportunity to really give the race a lot of overall traits that would shape what an individual from that race would be like, the later would make race hardly anything more than just how the character looks. For the next D&D world-- which method would be preferable? Both would allow for all races to be heroes or villains, but is it better for race to very much inform what a character is like or to make it more of a surface-level aspect? [/QUOTE]

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