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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6112918" data-attributes="member: 2093">IMCW I decided that I liked the idea that elves and dwarves feud with each other, and after thinking about it, I came up with what seems to be a good motivation for a particular region of my campaign world; historically the elves live in the forests on the slopes of a mountain range. The dwarves live under the mountains. They need lots of charcoal to burn to smelt the iron ore they mine; they use the wood from the forest. Instant conflict, instant reason for long-term racial tensions between elves and dwarves. If something like this fits the campaign world, I will use it. There may well be other regions of my world where elves and dwarves banded together to fight off the orcs who would have decimated both races if they didn't become allies; in that region, elf-dwarf relations are very different.I do use a few different "human races" in my world; the Shalani are a group who have genetically isolated themselves from the rest of the human racial groups; they've begun to diverge over several thousand years, and tend to be taller and fairer than other groups; the folk of greenvale are tall, but tend to be darker-haired and have darker skin-tones than the shalani. And the Mirani-folk are smaller and darker, with black hair and eyes. None match specifically any "earth-counterpart" and PCs are always free to vary their own PC's appearance, but it gives me room to say, "the small dark-haired rogue says something in a tongue you didn't catch..." and then the PC who took Mirani as a second language pops up with "Can I understand him?"(Also, everyone knows the Shalani are horse-thieves! Tall blond man tries to sell you a horse, check 3 times to see if it isn't stolen!)But I try to stay right away from issues that affect the real world; no sexist limitations on roles for female characters, nor STR limits, etc... and my campaign worlds are suspiciously egalitarian; when there is slavery, it is generally recognized as bad by everyone except the group practicing it, and so on.</blockquote>

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