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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 6491326" data-attributes="member: 27252">I’ve read a few comments about how playing humans is ‘boring’ and that it’s more hard to make a society interesting. People need to get out more and read more. We have the entire history of the human race to play with! Humans come in all shapes and sizes, and boast cultures that encompass everything interesting that we’ve ever known. Moreover, Tolkien made some interesting developments with his (now iconic) Races, but people have become fixated on them to the level that their own imaginations seem to be fixed on them. These days, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings are just stereotypes - based on human characteristics, and allegorical to something or other. Simply playing a stereotype does not make your character more interesting.I actually had an idea once, that I never followed through, for making all the non-human races just different tribes of humans. They carried all the traits within reason, but the background of each was redone so that they were just cultural representations of the diversity of humanity.</blockquote>