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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William drake" data-source="post: 3366042" data-attributes="member: 49143">I agree to a point. I think, for a while, all gamers play these types of heroes, however, after some time, things change and gamers evolve. If they don't, then it's tiresome (people who play the characters you're talking about, play things like Drizzt and the other cardboard cutout types from R.A's book of pooh*I think some of the problems with Roleplaying, is that no one wants to play unless they are doing the most amazing things, however, in real myths and legends, only one or two things in the entire story were amazing...most of it was just good plots, good converstaions, basic, but in that, is where people related. So, the story is about going after a sword...everything the heroes encounter, or do, doesn't have to be what they've done before a million times, and they dont have to fight the craziest foes to make it dangerous and fearful.Trying playing an entire human game. Now I know "I want to be an elf" well, if your an elf, then every one wants to be an elf, and if everyones an elf, then what is so rare about you? If however you play a human game, you then have the ability to use the other races, as they, I think, were intended to be. Fleeting, going away. Now I know, everything is set up that way...well, if they weren't then it would not be the age of MEN, which most of the stories are about. In LOTR, when Aragon, Legolas, and Gimly meet with the riders of Rhohan, the captain is supprised about what he's seeing, and thinks that elves were just in stories but if he sees, or knows those whove seen elves offten, would he care?It just depends on what your doing. If there are few humans, then you should be playing in a more ancient time...if there are alot of Men, then the other races are dying out or going away. The reason that there are always more humans than anyone else, is because humans mature, and mate sooner, and more offten than any other people. Elves live to be thousands of years in some stories, and that means they dont start into their maturity untill they are at least a few hundred years old, by that times, how many lines of men have been born, and how many of their children had children and so on....and if any ones ever read Paul Anderson *a very good story, kind of like LOTR* he talks about how male elves lose their sexual urges after a few thousand years, they turn to their minds, their magic...while females, just like in human society, reach their sexual peeks later in life. There for, they take on human lovers, and that just makes sense that over time, there will be less and less pure bloods..and over enough time, there won't be any at all.You also have to look at it from an evolutonary background. Men are always seen as the best race, therefore, even thoug elves are the wisest, they are not fit to survive, they dont spread or adapt, or survive as good as MEN do, therefor, they are going away. Dwarves stay to themselves, and slowly their races dies. This is true for all the old races, they are evolutonary culdsacks *some of this is personal oppinion* so it makes sense that Men are the dominate race. And, if you play a game where everyone is human, when you do encounter the old and magical, it is that, but much much more.The last thing I will say is this "if everything in your world is old, magical, lost, unknown, powerful...and so on, then I ask: is any of it?" If you encounter the strange and mystical everygame, then what about any of it is strange and mystical...</blockquote>

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