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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8833374" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I don't really want every race to be humans with nothing but rubber masks.&nbsp; So I'd probably go with previous suggestions, perhaps they're like locusts*.&nbsp; During lean times, there's no conscious decision to not have children, it's just a biological mechanism.&nbsp; Lean times means few offspring, times of plenty automatically lead to a boom cycle.&nbsp; Get a boom cycle and they expand far and wide caring little about survival of the individual as long as some areas are conquered and retained, perhaps at the cost of losing control of older &quot;used up&quot; lands.&nbsp; So the horde may lie low for a while and while 50 years ago they exploded out of the Gray Hills (which is now heavily patrolled), this time they're coming from the deep forest they drove the elves out of last time.But the biggest question to me, is what role do the hordes play in the overall story?&nbsp; Do you need or want a horde?&nbsp; Do you want &quot;evil&quot; empires or groupings?&nbsp; Is any of that based on race, religion, political affiliation?&nbsp; If it's the latter two, the races involved can be any mix you want.&nbsp; If it's race, that doesn't make them inherently evil, just a evolutionary niche of consolidate and explode.&nbsp; It also doesn't mean that even if it is race that there are not other peoples that join in to take advantage of the opportunities.You also need to think about how much you want to lean into black and white, good and evil.&nbsp; Personally I don't need a game to be the moral gray of the real world, but that's a personal preference.&nbsp; Is there a secret power, perhaps an individual, behind the sudden aggression or is it just an uncoordinated attack?&nbsp; If it's like locusts, it's really just a confluence of events. Cosmic struggle of good and evil?&nbsp; The hordes are probably spurred by some dark force with ulterior motives whether the hordes realize it or not.*There's an interesting article <a href="https://www.livescience.com/locusts.html#:~:text=Sudden%20rainfall%2C%20for%20example%2C%20could,or%20even%20billions%20of%20locusts." target="_blank">here </a>on the subject of locusts, how most of the time they're solitary fairly large grasshopper but when their numbers grow they transform.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8833374, member: 6801845"] I don't really want every race to be humans with nothing but rubber masks. So I'd probably go with previous suggestions, perhaps they're like locusts*. During lean times, there's no conscious decision to not have children, it's just a biological mechanism. Lean times means few offspring, times of plenty automatically lead to a boom cycle. Get a boom cycle and they expand far and wide caring little about survival of the individual as long as some areas are conquered and retained, perhaps at the cost of losing control of older "used up" lands. So the horde may lie low for a while and while 50 years ago they exploded out of the Gray Hills (which is now heavily patrolled), this time they're coming from the deep forest they drove the elves out of last time. But the biggest question to me, is what role do the hordes play in the overall story? Do you need or want a horde? Do you want "evil" empires or groupings? Is any of that based on race, religion, political affiliation? If it's the latter two, the races involved can be any mix you want. If it's race, that doesn't make them inherently evil, just a evolutionary niche of consolidate and explode. It also doesn't mean that even if it is race that there are not other peoples that join in to take advantage of the opportunities. You also need to think about how much you want to lean into black and white, good and evil. Personally I don't need a game to be the moral gray of the real world, but that's a personal preference. Is there a secret power, perhaps an individual, behind the sudden aggression or is it just an uncoordinated attack? If it's like locusts, it's really just a confluence of events. Cosmic struggle of good and evil? The hordes are probably spurred by some dark force with ulterior motives whether the hordes realize it or not. [I]*There's an interesting article [/I][URL='https://www.livescience.com/locusts.html#:~:text=Sudden%20rainfall%2C%20for%20example%2C%20could,or%20even%20billions%20of%20locusts.'][I]here [/I][/URL][I]on the subject of locusts, how most of the time they're [I]solitary [/I]fairly large grasshopper but when their numbers grow they transform.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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