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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3363999" data-attributes="member: 18832">I find the assumptions of &quot;classic D&amp;D&quot; to be just as uninteresting as the assumptions of Tolkienesque fantasy.I like a more Lovecraftian approach, with creatures that could be the degenerate descendants of another race - and in a fantasy world, that doesn't have to be an outgrowth of an ugly racist worldview like it is in Lovecraft's writings.In my own games, I almost never use the &quot;demihumans&quot; of core D&amp;D. Elves, dwarves, halflings, whatever - they're so uninteresting and cliched. It takes a reinvention on the scale on which Eberron does it (and even there, I find dwarves fairly dull except for their clawed-themselves-up-from-barbarism backstory) to get me interested in using them at all - and by that point, you've got Elves In Name Only.I like the idea that the warlord of an evil army might literally be half-demon. I like the idea that powerful dragons deliberately sire - or magically create - half-dragon champions to pursue their goals in the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 3363999, member: 18832"] I find the assumptions of "classic D&D" to be just as uninteresting as the assumptions of Tolkienesque fantasy. I like a more Lovecraftian approach, with creatures that could be the degenerate descendants of another race - and in a fantasy world, that doesn't have to be an outgrowth of an ugly racist worldview like it is in Lovecraft's writings. In my own games, I almost never use the "demihumans" of core D&D. Elves, dwarves, halflings, whatever - they're so uninteresting and cliched. It takes a reinvention on the scale on which Eberron does it (and even there, I find dwarves fairly dull except for their clawed-themselves-up-from-barbarism backstory) to get me interested in using them at all - and by that point, you've got Elves In Name Only. I like the idea that the warlord of an evil army might literally be half-demon. I like the idea that powerful dragons deliberately sire - or magically create - half-dragon champions to pursue their goals in the world. [/QUOTE]

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