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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8452830" data-attributes="member: 177">The first thing that comes to mind is that I'm okay with fantasy races that make no bloody sense.YOu want 47 different kinds of elf that frequently interact, can interbreed, but somehow maintain distinctiveness for thousands of years?  Cool.  Dragonboobs, and Lizardfolk that don't have specific issues with cold?  I'm good.  Monocultures?  I'm okay, so long as they aren't racist retreads.  Dwarven cultures with dubious agricultural support?  Go for it!  Everything interbreeding with every other thing?  That's fine.  The mere existence of 17 peoples sharing the same ecological niche for thousands of years, with no regard for what makes for a viable breeding population?  We almost insist on it!What happens with fantasy races can be arbitrary, nonsensical, and not stand up to more than 5 minutes worth of consideration, and I.  Don't.  Care.  I can wave my hands in the background whispering about magic that doesn't follow logic, and the whim of capricious deities, and there are no issues.Except for Kender.  Those guys are nonsensical, and really freakin' annoying.  They can take a hike.  Tasslehoff Burrfoot was not a typical member of his people - he didn't have wanderlust, he was exiled for his compulsive lying and callous disregard for the needs of others.  Rather than address his issues he projected them into fictions about how all his people were just like him.  That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.In sci-fi, if you give me an alien race that doesn't hold up to two minutes of logical thought, and we will have words.</blockquote>

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