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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7822336" data-attributes="member: 996">It crashed and, well, didn't burn, but made a Holy mess...… the black box indicates pilot error. Prettymuch like some gazelles paying a neighborly visit to band of hyenas.  It should be... ...welcoming.  Probably figure it's a prisoner.   Depending on local cuisine, variations, possibly offer to trade a halfling, or maybe two sheep, for it - or maybe just have a laugh over a tired 'ranch dressing' joke ("no, too heavy - for an elf, always use vinaigrette")Words have connotations, we can't go policing every connotation of every word, not without going crazy....'trope' vs 'stereotype?'   I think stereotype fit what the OP was looking for.  Can't say I've ever subverted that one. ;POK, in one setting I ran for a bit, there was a harsh, 'frontier' region where the human settlers preferred orcish wives, because they had a reputation for being strong, loyal, and surviving childbirth. Heck, if anything, I've tended to make them /more/ Hobbitish.Not so much.  It's a fantasy world, your typical villager could barely hope to take a kobold.  They might run away from anything that looks out of the ordinary, though... ...come to think of it, I had more than a few twists in that same setting.  The only prominent order of paladins in that world were the mysterious "Bald Ones," shaved, tattooed, and widely feared as indiscriminate, unstoppable, serial killers (Detect Evil + total conviction + secret mystery cult).  Hobgoblins were not just militaristic but civilized, and bureaucratic rather than evil (not that that's a lot better).  Gnolls were still savage, tribal, hunters, but because of ingrained religious dogma that included a taboo horror of all the trappings of agriculture, and an origin myth that, similarly, required uncompromising hatred of humans.  In general, the 'evil' races weren't really evil, at least, not in their own minds.  Evil was reserved for 'elder races' - mindflayers and giants and the like (which is plenty stereotypical, too, I suppose).</blockquote>

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