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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1906063" data-attributes="member: 12706">It occurs to me that the reason humans may be dominant in most campaign settings is that, in the end, we WERE. In the real world that is. I mean, science tells us those things never existed in the first place, but if we tie science up and gag it and stick it in the corner for a minute, and just look at the legends and then at the world the way it is now, "obviously" all the elves and fae and trolls and so forth died out or went elsewhere. They declined, and we expanded.It would be interesting (although admittedly not likely) if the reason popular fiction (including gaming) is coming back around to the idea of equality and/or co-dominance for those other races is because our computer and genetic sciences are on the verge of allowing those other races to be REAL (again?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). The near future may include entire virtual worlds with inhabitants deserving of the same rights as you and I, because their complexity and behavior is indistinguishable aside from their virtual nature. Since these people would be less limited by biology, we may see Klingon and Drow communities spring up, and more. And it may not be long before genetics allows people to choose their children's eventual height, eye, skin, and hair color - maybe even to the extent of custom features not previously seen in nature, but seen in the mythical races.</blockquote>

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