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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8759951" data-attributes="member: 2629">Can you explain why the approach I am suggesting will not work?  I am not seeing how it does not.Let me try.  You want a smart/wise race, similar to the mystical representation of elves.  Right?   So let's say you're not going to use elves as a starting block and let's come up with something different.  I'll steal the Kaminoans from Star Wars as a look, but give them blue scales or some other feature to hide that theft ... perhaps copper skin and clawed hands?Now I ask where they came from.  To me, that description sounds kind of Lovecraftian, so I'll go with them being an ancient race from the Far Realm that escaped this world to avoid Dagon, Cthulhu and the other horros of the Far Realm - but accidently opened the door for them to enter our world.  So what did they do once they arrived here, and once they realized they popped that door open?Well, they likely brought strange and alien things with them.  I'd give them magical abilities, and populate their abilities with homebrew spells that feel alien and psionic in nature.   They tried to advance those abilities when they came here, and that i what allowed the Elder Gods to follow and unleash their horrors on the Prime.  As a result, these creatures organized efforts to push them back.  How doo they do that in Cthulhu mythos?  Secret Orders!  These people form secret organizations to train others to fight the Elder Gods.How do they fight?  Well, they have their magics that originated in the Far Realms, but they came to the Prime - so why wouldn't they adopt the tools of the Prime as well?  They could have seprate orders of Psions, Mages, Sorcerers, Druids, and Clerics.  Every answer to a question invites more questions - which results in more being fleshde out until you have a story and a clearer vision.You may not like my story above - but you can tell your story any way you want.  This is a tried and true method.</blockquote>

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