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<blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6495183" data-attributes="member: 6779234">You certainly get that feeling from Tolkein. You get Dwarves sometimes in the Shire, Elves are thought of as amazing by Sam, while most Hobbits seem to scoff at outsiders of any stripe. Thinking about Gondor and Rohan, I don't get the impression that Dwarves or Elves live there, although neither are they shocked or appalled to see Legolas or Gimli. The races feel quite separated in LOTR, even though there's a background to it that the races all worked together at times in the past.Going back to D&amp;D, there's certainly the nobbling of Demi-human level advancement in early D&amp;D, which IMO gives it a Human-centric feel. BECMI somewhat patched this in later years, allowing advancement in &quot;attack ranks&quot;. It seems to be assumed that Humans are just better than Demi-humans, despite the longevity of the latter suggesting it should be the other way around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grainger, post: 6495183, member: 6779234"] You certainly get that feeling from Tolkein. You get Dwarves sometimes in the Shire, Elves are thought of as amazing by Sam, while most Hobbits seem to scoff at outsiders of any stripe. Thinking about Gondor and Rohan, I don't get the impression that Dwarves or Elves live there, although neither are they shocked or appalled to see Legolas or Gimli. The races feel quite separated in LOTR, even though there's a background to it that the races all worked together at times in the past. Going back to D&D, there's certainly the nobbling of Demi-human level advancement in early D&D, which IMO gives it a Human-centric feel. BECMI somewhat patched this in later years, allowing advancement in "attack ranks". It seems to be assumed that Humans are just better than Demi-humans, despite the longevity of the latter suggesting it should be the other way around. [/QUOTE]

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