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<blockquote data-quote="celt" data-source="post: 1466413" data-attributes="member: 967"><p>Sarellion and Vlos I've partially responded to your messages within my previous replies. Thanks!</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was totally affected by having played Morrowind on my PC. In Morrowind they have the dwarves as one of the great founding races that began tinkering with technology and eventually wiped themselves out through an unknown (but guessed at) technological mishap! The dwarves never appear physically in the game but you FEEL them all over the place. I kept waiting for them to step out from beind an Oz-like curtain and say something like "let me expain . . ."</p><p></p><p>Also, I want to come up with names for the classic races but I'm afraid my gut reaction will be to keep referring to them as elves and dwarves no matter what I do. Or that the players will eventually bring us back around to the classic names. Is this a winnable battle? Can I call them the "Varushnacoc" and have it stick? I love the fact that the name change alone makes you reconsider the race.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Love it. I'm totally going to play up the Faerie/Elf link. There's so much beautiful lore available there that I'm not going to muck around too much. I really like your angle of them being able to get "home". Roleplaying will proceed from that idea easily. I'm hoping I can have this core beauty and a surface of Nazi-like hatred of the other races co-exist. Maybe with the idea that the players will have an effect on Elf groups or individuals and help them see how *wrong* they're acting. Ooo, i got all free-form there. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No Gnomes for me! Done with them! They come with too much boring baggage for me to want to bother. I'd rather slap a good idea on almost any other noun. You can have all MY gnomes! </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is NASTY! I love it! Absolutely! Holy crap! What a great angle. What a way to wake up a race that was run-down and lingering in mediocrity. You blew me away. Did you come up with this idea?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Interesting, kind of has a "Planet of the Apes" feel to it. I might have my orcs working as jackbooted thugs for my Nazi Elves.</p><p></p><p>Many thanks for these great ideas!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="celt, post: 1466413, member: 967"] Sarellion and Vlos I've partially responded to your messages within my previous replies. Thanks! I was totally affected by having played Morrowind on my PC. In Morrowind they have the dwarves as one of the great founding races that began tinkering with technology and eventually wiped themselves out through an unknown (but guessed at) technological mishap! The dwarves never appear physically in the game but you FEEL them all over the place. I kept waiting for them to step out from beind an Oz-like curtain and say something like "let me expain . . ." Also, I want to come up with names for the classic races but I'm afraid my gut reaction will be to keep referring to them as elves and dwarves no matter what I do. Or that the players will eventually bring us back around to the classic names. Is this a winnable battle? Can I call them the "Varushnacoc" and have it stick? I love the fact that the name change alone makes you reconsider the race. Love it. I'm totally going to play up the Faerie/Elf link. There's so much beautiful lore available there that I'm not going to muck around too much. I really like your angle of them being able to get "home". Roleplaying will proceed from that idea easily. I'm hoping I can have this core beauty and a surface of Nazi-like hatred of the other races co-exist. Maybe with the idea that the players will have an effect on Elf groups or individuals and help them see how *wrong* they're acting. Ooo, i got all free-form there. :heh: No Gnomes for me! Done with them! They come with too much boring baggage for me to want to bother. I'd rather slap a good idea on almost any other noun. You can have all MY gnomes! This is NASTY! I love it! Absolutely! Holy crap! What a great angle. What a way to wake up a race that was run-down and lingering in mediocrity. You blew me away. Did you come up with this idea? Interesting, kind of has a "Planet of the Apes" feel to it. I might have my orcs working as jackbooted thugs for my Nazi Elves. Many thanks for these great ideas! [/QUOTE]
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