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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4019046" data-attributes="member: 18">Precisely. It's the whole "if one teaspoon of spices makes this dish exciting, then, dumping the whole pot in will make it MINDBLOWING WOOOOOO!" philosophy that appears to be going on behind the comment that's utterly idiotic.I really really really loathe this kind of "replacement" fantasy, where most human things have to be replaced by something "more exciting". I mean, oh, an aqueduct? NOT EXCITING ENOUGH. Now it's a magical waterway where water floats through the sky! And if that was only one thing in one part of the setting, it'd be cool. If every freakin' corner of the setting has something similar though, suddenly it's the NON-magical, normal stone aqueduct that's exciting, not the various flash magical ones.The same with non-human races. Against a human background, they're fascinating. When humans are just one race, and most of the world is wierd races, though, it's harder to get into, and it just doesn't have the same feel. Indeed, in my experience of such settings, it tends to feel ludicrous and unlikely. It's not even cool in a "swords and sorcery" way, it's just cheap idiocy like Star Trek: Voyager or something. Alien of the week. Eugh.PS - You CAN do fantasy with a vast number of non-human races and bizarre things really well. It just involves a lot more thinking and consideration than the Homer Simpson-worthy "mummies r duller than salamanders" idiocy we have here.</blockquote>

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