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<blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 3551417" data-attributes="member: 50821">OK fair warning...this will get a bit ranty...Only if you go with the ideas used in every other boring, copycat, standardized series. I don't do that. I don't mean to be antagonistic or fecisous but try thinking outside the box. Bear in mind that box is very, very old. Why would Dwarves begrudge the Elven people for being given the gift of magic crystals?? What's it to them? Should the Wood Elves be pissed at the Dwarves and Humans for making things out of wood? How the heck does that make any sense? If anything it gives them common gorund, a mutual respect for the Earth. Besides, the Dwarves still remain the undisputed champions of mining, stonecutting and similar work for their own cultural reasons.People aren't their jobs or their cliched interests. Why in my opinion, it borders on discrimination and prejudice. Are all of one kind of people good at banking, bad with money, lazy, untrustworthy? So I'm a Dwarf and I gotta love rocks is that it? No Elf could possibly be interested in the workings of mechanical devices? That is as preposterous and it is limiting.I'm starting to remember why I don't like to run fantasy any longer. Once Tolkien did it, it cannot be undone or changed.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Green Adam, post: 3551417, member: 50821"] [I]OK fair warning...this will get a bit ranty...[/I] Only if you go with the ideas used in [B]every other[/B] boring, copycat, standardized series. I don't do that. I don't mean to be antagonistic or fecisous but try thinking outside the box. Bear in mind that box is very, very old. Why would Dwarves begrudge the Elven people for being given the gift of magic crystals?? What's it to them? Should the Wood Elves be pissed at the Dwarves and Humans for making things out of wood? How the heck does that make any sense? If anything it gives them common gorund, a mutual respect for the Earth. Besides, the Dwarves still remain the undisputed champions of mining, stonecutting and similar work for their own cultural reasons. People aren't their jobs or their cliched interests. Why in my opinion, it borders on discrimination and prejudice. Are all of one kind of people good at banking, bad with money, lazy, untrustworthy? So I'm a Dwarf and I gotta love rocks is that it? No Elf could possibly be interested in the workings of mechanical devices? That is as preposterous and it is limiting. [I] I'm starting to remember why I don't like to run fantasy any longer. Once Tolkien did it, it cannot be undone or changed.[/I] :confused: [/QUOTE]

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