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>fantasy game >orc human elf dwarf When will it die?

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>fantasy game
>orc human elf dwarf

When will it die?
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>>377905126
probably never. tolkien will always be a huge influence on the fantasy genre.

that being said, there are plenty of games out there with non-traditional fantasy settings. go play them and stop complaining that shit you don't like exists.
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>>377905126
And if it's not that, it's some sort of furry

Science bless Legend of Zelda even though it's got elf-people for having more unique races
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>fantasy game
>human green elf small elf that isnt really small at all yellow elf black blue elf cannibal elf

Why is this allowed?
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>fantasy game
>black guy
>black elf
>white guy
>yellow elf
>brown elf
>white guy again
>cat
>lizard
>another white guy
>orc
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>humans are the ''balanced'' race
>make up 90% of the world population

>orcs are dumb but strong

>elves are smart and can into magic but hate everything not-elvish

>lizard people are ANCIENT

>dwarves live under the ground and are good warriors and blacksmiths

>cat people are lewd as shit

>nature people are just hippies
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>>377905837
>dwarves live in the mountains*

fixed that for you. the ones that live underground are referred to as duergar.
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Second someone writes a fantasy novel that gets more traction than Tolkien but has unique races. So never.
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>>377905971
NERD
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>Fantasy game
>Elves are suppose to be eternal smug and more long lived, but isn't given stats to reflect that
>Elf civilization is a paper tiger
>Orcs are hardcore
>Humans are BALANCED, with no cool racial features
>Dwarfs are humans on steroids
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>>377906050
>GEEK*

fixed that for you. nerds are into STEM, geeks are into fantasy/sci-fi.
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Jesus Varg, just let me do or like something
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>>377906147
>Elvish civilization was super advanced with elves being pretty much immortal and also masters of science and magic
>somehow they still lost everything are now live isolated in some shitholes while most of Earth is now in human hands
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>>377905696
Forgot the midget and dwarf
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>>377906040
I mean it's not like Tolkien's races were "unique", but he used some of the most popular mythology races.
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>>377906147
The suckage of elven civilization is the one thing where they always break from Tolkien, and I have no idea why.

Like, bitches have a huge headstart and live hundreds of years, you'd think they'd be able to build a proper city. Tolkien elves certainly did. Tons of them.
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>>377905126
>fantasy game
>no foxgirls
>no kitsunes
>no dragon girls
>no centaurs
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>>377906448
Furry waifufags need to leave
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>>377906391
Elves are based on inland Scandinavia.
Including traits such as
>Woodland
>Hostility
>Literally eating and raping the ones they catch
>Different genealogy and height due being isolated from the coastal trade civilization
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>>377905126
I don't know varg, try stabbing it
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>>377906265
Humans normally outbreed Elves, even though they can't die from old age they reproduce very slowly. Even with superior warfare/technology/magic any loss on the battlefield would require elves to wait centuries until they're in full force again. Humans on the other hand are so balanced and adaptable they can use magic, technology, their vast numbers and their sense of adventures to subdue every other race over time.
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>>377905126

Why should it die? If it's just a generic ripoff, sure, it ought be looked down on, but if the civilizations can be given life beyond one or two characteristic, making them interesting, then I have no complaints.
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>>377906673
Thats faulty reasoning, because universally in setting you have massive stat gains on level up.
Even in D&D.
Stat gain + immortality offsets any possible advantage humans could ever have, which is why Elfs are Uber Race in Tolkien's LOTR.

Main reasons Elf civilization is a gigantic paper tiger, is because writers didn't think it through. And because D&D is poplar, the 1:1 copy pastes end up spreading some of the worst ideas possible.
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>>377906645

would he have to stab it 23 times before it died?
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>goblin class never

Why cant i play as the jew?
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>>377905126
>game set in the future
>White men still exist
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>>377906592
I dont see how fluffy ears and fluffy tail on human is considered a furry.

Its quite arousing.
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>Fantasy game

>mothman angel wendigo yeti

UKoT did it right
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>>377905126
sniff my cunny Varg
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>>377905126
>fantasy game
>patriarchal society again
BAKA DESU SENPAI
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Never, because it's an effective way to allow players options in terms of what their character should be specialized in.

>elves are agile but not physically strong
>dwarves are slow but tough
>humans are the middle-ground
>orcs are irredeemable monsters who exist to be killed because of the unspeakably evil acts they commit towards everyone

Honestly the only thing that could (and should) change about it is removing orcs from the equation since the only ones that like them are dumb brutes.
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>>377906893
Immortality plays no role in video games where elves are usually nerfed in other ways. Yes, they were like quarter- or half gods in LotR but that doesn't mean other media can't correct it. Take a look at games like Arcanum, it's perfectly explained why Humans are the predominant race and why Elves still live on trees and why dwarves still dwell in mountains (and why city dwarves get shunned)
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>>377906893
>Even in D&D.

u w0t m8
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>>377906893
In LOTR the humans are actually the cool race since they have the gift of mortality. Elves are eternal but they do not advance like humans do. They used their rings to keep their society going forward but with the destruction of the one ring and industralisation of humanity they will slowly fade away.
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>>377907138
They'd be just as attractive without those things. Those are just superficial details, and if you don't agree it's because you're a furry.
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>>377907192
what game is UKoT
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>>377907231
Galadriel would've been High Queen if not for the patriarchy!
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>>377907402
Anyone know what wrecked the elves in the Witcher? Apparently the humans built over their destroyed cities.
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>fantasy game
>gets attacked by cats for no reason
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>>377907545
The game I just made up.
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>>377907654
oh, darn
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>Fantasy game
>Anthropomorphic races
When will it die?
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>>377907402
But in Arcanum, Humans are not even the predominant race. At most, they make up 30% of the presented population.
The Elves aren't really represented as a paper tiger either, neither are mages.

>>377907596
Elves didn't get wrecked in Witcher. Once their breeding program failed, they migrated to other worlds.
The remaining minority got wrecked, because there was no real infrastructure.
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>>377905126
>make original race of ranged combat experts
>people call them elves
>make original race of hardy tanks
>people call them dwarves
>make original race of bloodthirsty warriors
>people call them orcs
>make original race of sneaky thieves
>people call them goblins

You really can't avoid these associations.
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>>377907596
Slower reproduction. They're long lived but only fertile when they're young.
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>>377907491
You didn't really get the meme did you?
In LOTR, Elves as well as Maiar as Eternal. But they still get worn out, fade out, and burn away.

Its the same reason Melkior as well as Sauron keeps losing more and more power.
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>>377907874
Maybe you should put in more effort than calling an Elf a Murqualastin'tan.
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>>377905971
Duergar has the same root as dverger, which literally means dwarves. So, he's not wrong.
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>>377905126
There needs to be more cute monster girls in fantasy like lizards. I want my cute lizard wife with her cute little apron.
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>>377907513
So are women with long hair vs short hair yet you still have preference you stupid shit.

Elves are just humans with softer thinner features. Not much difference

Dwarves and gnomes are humans but smaller with bigger heads.

Orcs are just palette swapped more masculine focused humans

Etc

Do you need more examples of where this is going dumb shit?
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>>377907596
The coming of humans brought about the coming of magic and monsters witcher elves weren't that much proficient at it as normal human mages. And humans just appeared in throngs in witvher after the conjunction havinv fled their own world as they escape the frost, so they had comparable numbers, comparable magic, but humans were more savage and more proficient at war than the other elder races hence why they came to rule world.
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>>377907379
Dwarf is the best non-Human Wizard race in core 3.5 D&D and games like NWN, but nobody thinks about dwarves as wizards.
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>>377907857
There are 7 races in Arcanum and humans can interbreed with three other races. Even if pure-bred humans make up only 30% of all people in total it's still far more than any other group.
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>>377907934
I feel like you're leaving out some details, because I don't see how they'd reproduce slower if they're reproducing when they're young. If anything they just have a massive population due to the elderly still being around and active while the kids are busy breeding.
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>>377908215
I thought Elves typically have more gaunt like faces
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>>377908318
Arcanum takes place on a island where "the big city" is still mostly populated by Gnomes and Half Orks.
There is no majority in Arcanum, unlike D&D settings like Sword Coast which is 95% human.
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>>377905126
never kys commie
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>>377908334
Imagine only having a timeframe of 5 or 10 years to reproduce and every pregnancy only brings one child. Assuming that one pregnancy only lasts 9 months, you're either stuck with using female elves as breeding sows or you're getting only 2 children per woman at max. Now take into account that elves aren't invincible, they just have a longer life. There's still infant mortality, accidents, sickness, genetical deficiencies and you're slowly loosing a battle for resources with humans who can get pregnant 24/7 from age 15 to 40 something.
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>>377907475
Remember: Race with +20 to everything will beat out a race with +0 base and maybe +4 for profession.
Then again, this is the same "system" where Levitation is worth 200 skillpoints in Climb and about 400 in Jump. Its not balanced in any way shape or form.
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>>377908336
Gaunt is a bit over doing it. That's closer to looking undead.
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>>377908709
Guess its time to interbred with catgirls who are ultra horny and fertile.
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>>377908462
Half Orcs are usually piss-poor factory workes, gnomes are wealthy merchants/businessmen while humans usually fulfill every role, from beggar to businessman to mechanic to bouncer or kingpin. Plus most farmers and settlers are humans.
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>>377908794
what are you talking about? nothing you said there has any relation whatsoever to D&D
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>>377908842
Disgusting.
Cats are for petting, not fucking.
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>>377908709
>>377907934
That isn't even why Witcher Elves are the declining race.
They are the declining race because:
1. Their magic breeding program failed(Lara Dorren)

2. Before that, a lot of elves jumped ship to other dimensional tribes
Meaning the elf population is suddenly artificially low

3. Human mages are about as powerful, but are basically semi immortal, so their mage population is higher from higher birth rate

4. Witcher doesn't take place in THE WORLD, it takes place in a small part of the European that is basically Poland + Russian Inland rivers + Orkney Isles + Swiss Border
So strong statements like "The Witchers are in decline" might not even be true

5. Elves cities are built vastly far apart, only being connected by magic. Meanwhile Human's created Witchers to clear out the gigantic monster hoards between those cities, meaning they could have a actual abundant civilization
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>>377908980
Except:
1. We never visit human farmland
2. We never visit non urban settlements
3. There is no claims to population except the vivid pieces of anti magic racism and "we must build better Orks!"
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>>377909306
Loli catgirls are for breeding with.
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>>377909306
You have anything to support that claim?
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>>377905126
>fantasy game
>fantasy races are not orc elf dwarf (human)
When will it die?
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>>377909306
why not both?
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>Genre called Fantasy.
>It's mostly super contrived and unimaginative.
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>>377909751
>dwarf (human)
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>>377909982
it was like 'and human' but human isn't fantasy race :^)
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>Scifi game
>all the aliens are just humanoids with weird heads and skin color
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>>377909632
Shrouded Hills, Ashbury, Blackroot, Caladon, Dernholm, Roseborough, Tarant, Tulla. All human cities. The most settlements in the game are predominately human and there is one populated dwarven city, one populated elven city and one populated dark elven city.
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>>377910184
I'd marry one if she was cute enough.
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>>377910184
>scifi game
>completely left out the "science" part, it's actually just future fantasy
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>sci-fi game
>has shit like bears, dogs, bees and dragons

Furries are cancer
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>the prophecy said that X is going to happen
>an ancient evil has awakened
>you are the chosen one
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Am I the only one that think there's too little of the typical high fantasy tropes in games?
Outside of MMO's there's barely and high fantasy games.
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>>377910184

Actually, if the aliens were terrestrial surface dwelling tool users, they might not look too strange to us.

Nature favors certain forms for certain things

Most biological forms have bilateral symmetry, and most surface dwelling animals have limbs.

Nature also favors sense organ clusters high up and forward facing, so eyes and nose and mouth are usually in the front and top.

They may or may not be bipedal though.

Then again I've never seen an alien so who knows what they look like?

Alot of the crazier alien designs in fiction make no sense from an evolutionary standpoint though
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How long until midgets start suing these companies for being treated as magical creatures?

It's as if transsexuals or autists were some different race in LoTR, while they are actually people with diseases or birth defects in real life.

I'm yet to find a midget going to see some RPG movie and ask him if he can dig all the way to Moria and see his reaction.

Do midgets not care about Social Justice?
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>>377908794
>Race with +20 to everything will beat out a race with +0 base and maybe +4 for profession.
Then again, this is the same "system" where Levitation is worth 200 skillpoints in Climb and about 400 in Jump. Its not balanced in any way shape or form.
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>>377910683

>I'm 12 and have no idea how evolution works or how the history of our planet played a part in shaping the creatures we see post
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>>377907491
humans who fought against Melkor were given more power and their own island kingdom in Numenor. They were much stronger than the elves who ramained in Middle Earth. Numenorians even made Sauron their bitch for a while. Then Sauron rused them to rise against the Eldar in west and their kingdom was sunk.
Basically elves and humans in Tolkien setting come in various races and power levels, something only Elder Scrolls seem to replicate to a degree.
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>>377910828
Wrong.
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>>377910713
They've learned to live with their shortcomings
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>>377910930
They weren't "given" more power. Most of them were pretty normal. The royal line had considerably more power, but that's because the founder of the lineage was half elven (with a tiny dash of maiar).
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>>377910834

Yeah I know exactly why humans evolved certain traits.

We evolved into a bipedal stance to see predators further over the plains

We evolved into using tools to crack bones open for the marrow

Almost every intelligent animal on the planet has forward facing sense clusters, because it makes the most sense to know what's in front of you.

If we ever encountered a space-faring alien race, they would most likely be more similar to us than not.

You aren't going to get to space without a high degree of intelligence and the ability to manipulate tools. Most tool manipulating animals are intelligent scavengers like humans and crows.
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>>377910828
Someone post that Oglaf comic
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>Edgy Fantasy game
>Play as warrior cultue of totally not orcs
>Play as magic culture of totally not elves.
>Humans are the best at everything in the world and probably own some evil empire
>Demons arent actually evil
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>>377911001

kek
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>>377905971
duergar literally means dwarves you fucking autist.
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>>377911105

Weak bait, try harder.
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>Humans are smug
>Elves are even smugger
>Orcs are darwinists and respect you if you're strong
>Dwarves don't give a shit
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>>377905126
Create a new fantasy race.
GO.
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>>377911490

The Bulborb race is always relevant.
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>>377911490
Thr'ueg
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>>377911490
Fish on four legs. Hire me Bethesda.
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>>377911638
Like the shark mobs in trails?
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But that's not true?
Barely any fantasy game actually has that, just a few MMO's and isometric RPGs
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>>377911397

When we find intelligent alien life, It will most likely be strange looking humanoids with limbs and precise manipulators like fingers.

Nothing else makes any sense. A being without tool making physiology isn't going to meet us in space.
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>>377911490
Centipede wizards from another dimension
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>>377907934
Ah so they're Japanese.
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>>377911667
Never played that game. But hey buddy I think I got just the thing for you! Tiny spider race made out of spaghetti. please give me money
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>>377911490
Rocks with wheels I'd call them Rockians
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>>377911490
Okay so get this. They have weird colored skin. Weird height and weird voices but they are based on an old culture from real life!

Why dont we have more RPGs set in real history rather than just making cheap copies of cultures?
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>dragons can breed with everyone
>are somehow rare/extinct
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>>377910184
The best sci-fi headcanon for any mythos is that all races hail from a singular source and evolved differently on different environments.
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>elf
>half-elf
>dark elf
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>can literally choose anything to put in his imaginary world, concepts not even dreamed of as of yet
>chooses generic Tolkien fantasy setting
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>>377910520
>The prophecy said that X is going to happen
>You are the chosen one
>Turns out the prophecy was doctored by the big bad to accomplish their goals
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>>377911905
>you will never have a QT giant dragon that keeps trying to get on your dick so she doesn't go extinct
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>>377911791
Or tentacles, or be amorphous blobs that can create whatever tools locally based on their need at the time, having a rigid structure isn't the best answer, just what you are familiar with.
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>>377907031
>game set in the future
>white people no longer exist
>civilization still exists
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>>377911905
They can. Doesn't mean they do. Dragons are also highly antisocial.

Nymphs have no excuse.
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>>377912065

Do they come from some magical place with no gravity?

Every terrestrial being has rigidity, even aquatic life forms need skeletal structure of some kind.

Tentacles arent good at grasping or manipulating tools, and evolved for one purpose; catching food.
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>>377905126
why would you want any other archetypes

>elf
embodies the grace and ideal that humanity dreams of
>dwarf
work hard, play hard. essentially the patron saints of any industry worker
>orc
fulfills a power fantasy of returning to our tribal roots, comes represented as everything from brutal monsters to the noble savage myth
>human
even humans in fantasy universes tend to be idealized
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>>377907031
>>377912074
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>>377905696
>mysterious extinct race of small elfs as a bonus
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Varg's tabletop game has interesting races.
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>Fantasy/SciFi/whatever setting
>humans always end up saving or destroying the world, either way they're always in the frontrows of whatever's happening
Overcompensating much, silly humans?
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>>377911791

>aliens from a world that is 99% water
>aliens from a world that is 99% gasses
>aliens from a world that has 500% our gravity
>aliens from a world that has 1% our gravity
>aliens from a world based on Germanium and not Carbon
>aliens from a world with 1% our atmospheric oxygen
>aliens from a world with 500% our atmospheric oxygen
>aliens from a world with very cold temperatures
>aliens from a world with very hot temperatures
>humanoids
>arms and fingers

This is how retarded you are.

It's ok, I used to think that I understood everything when I was 12 too.

Pic related is you.
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>>377912296
>Two nazis fighting
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>>377911490
Best thing to do is take attributes from different animals in nature (or mythical beasts), make them distinct enough from humans that they're not just humans with pointy ears, but similar enough that you still wanna fug the girls, and give them the attributes close to some ancient culture.
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>>377912365

>there will never be a fantasy world in which humans exist but only play a minor role in the overall conflict
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>>377911490
Ok, take an attractive human woman. Give her a fluffy tail, the fuzzy ears of a wolf, and the desire to AAAAAAAWWWWWWWOOOOOOOO
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>>377912296
>game set in the future
>enemy still gets more scoops than you
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>>377912408
>aliens from a world based on Germanium
Sign me up
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>fantasy world
>the country/area of a race has one single climate/landscape

>humans always live in the grass/forest area
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>>377911838
that's not joker that's green lantern you dipshit
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>>377909450

>4. Witcher doesn't take ... be true

this is wrong and retarded.

conjunction of the spheres transplanted tribes of humans (from medieval dark ages earth) into the Aen Sidhe's 'earth' along with the monsters et al. magic is the leftover 'fallout' from it.
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>>377912408

>aliens from a world that is 99% water

Aquatic life forms arent going to make it to space, ever. It's difficult enough to get a rocket out of the atmosphere when its made of air.

>aliens from a world that is 99% gasses

Any being that evolves in a gas world would also most likely not get to space. What tools are there to develop on a planet with almost no solid matter?

>aliens from a world that has 500% our gravity

Those fuckers aint getting to space either. Go look up fuel/weight limits in rockets and you'd see why. We are most likely one of the heavier(est) space faring races

>aliens from a world that has 1% our gravity

So biological life evolves on a planet with no atmosphere?

>aliens from a world based on Germanium and not Carbon

No such thing as non-carbon based life.

>aliens from a world with 1% our atmospheric oxygen

Not getting to space either. You need ignition for fuel rockets, and you can't get ignition with no air.

>aliens from a world with 500% our atmospheric oxygen

They'd probably be really big people

>aliens from a world with very cold temperatures

They'd be really furry people

>aliens from a world with very hot temperatures

They'd be very dark people

>humanoids
>arms and fingers

I find it funny that you call me 12, when you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
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>>377906336

how come the erudite is always standing around like a smug asshole when there's shit to do
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>>377905126
His game only has humans, elves (self insert), and darklings.
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>fantasy world
>Japan exists
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>>377912874
>Human whose species hasn't even fully explored its own ocean and whose populace still believes in gods comments on the practicality of other potential species progressing to FTL travel
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>>377905416
The garudo are basically just orcs
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>>377905126
It's still better than the pitful attempts at new races in most games. Like Pillars of Eternity for example, damn, that's some shitty races
I can't recall a fantasy game that had good races that weren't those
Jrpgs sometimes have good ideas, but that's too just a few examples in a world of retarded shit
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>>377912874
>I'm 12 and I know exactly how everything in the universe works
What are you doing on 4chan dude, go get your Nobel prize
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>>377912782
>magic is the leftover
Its not. If that was true, Elf civilization wouldn't be spread as much as it was.
Its a civilization thats basically on the level of
>gg no portal, no re
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>>377912101

>be such a violently powerful expression of natural magic and beauty that even being LOOKED AT by the purehearted can strike them permanently BLIND. let alone the lewdly minded fucks who'd be searching for you trying to bang you.

>no excuse

sure thing fucko.

next you'll say fantasy humans should all be riding around on pegasi and unicorns
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>>377912874

>No such thing as non-carbon based life.
>Not getting to space either. You need ignition for fuel rockets, and you can't get ignition with no air.
>So biological life evolves on a planet with no atmosphere?

We creationists now.

Is pic related you?
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>>377905837
To be honest, seeing special snowflake dwarves or elves that are not like the typical ones is even worse.
If you do dwarves, do them like this, if you want to be original just fuck off and make a different race altogether.
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>>377912986
You're basically just an orc
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>>377912986
>Orcs are a female only race that only give birth to one male every hundred or so years and kidnap males from other races to procreate
Unf nice
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>>377913313
I never played the games, only seen box art. Look like orcs to me.
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>>377913313
Stop fucking non human species you degenerate.
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Reminder that dwarves, elves, gnomes and races like that are based on mythological creatures and not taken from Tolkien. And nearly no Fantasy game uses the typical "Tolkien" orcs but rather the Warhammer type.
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>>377913386
Not sure if satire or genuinely retarded.
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>>377905126
You can try Witcher. It attempts to break up the monotony. Only thing that is similar to Tolkeins is the Dwarves and halflings, no Orcs and elves have been wiped away and the only thing that's left are half-bred mongrels, but plenty of unique monsters and magic.
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>>377913212

So looking at what we know to be fact and applying it to the greater universe makes me a creationist?

You sound retarded.

Go find me non carbon based life, a rocket that works with no oxygen and a life form that can survive in space.

What? Those don't exist?

You're the one who sounds like a creationist, believing in things that have no proof of existence, just because you want to.
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>>377906391
Before Tolkien, elves were pretty similar to fairies and dwarves weren't really separate from gnomes
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>>377913417
If we werent meant to breed, GOD wouldn't have made out parts compatible. :^)
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>>377906336
>black priest guy just standing around not doing anything
Do you think he's staying out because he knows he'd be attacking one of his own?
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>game tries to be original and create its own races
>its still just proud warrior race, noble intelligent race, political power race that rule the world for some of reason, blacksmith race, waifubait race, etc
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>>377913313
Not so fun when you get captured
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>>377913460
Looks like an orc to me. And you know these fantasy games: if it looks like something, it most likely is.
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>>377911490
I remember when I was younger I was planning to write a fantasy novel and one of the races I came up with to populate my world was a race called "The Stone Men".

Basically they were a race of literal living stone humanoids, they were about 9 feet tall on average and were extremely heavy and slow but hard as fuck to kill and really strong. Their bodies contained a molten core that acted much like a heart and was heated through an innate magic, it was their greatest weak point because if it ever cooled and hardened they would die. They didn't like water or cold environments for obvious reasons and were born from an enormous rocky area in the center of their lands, their holy land and the source of all of their kind, they never let other races even know about it, let alone tell them where it is or let them go near it.

So yeah, if that ancient piece of my past counts that's my fantasy race.
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Furfags are fucking cancer shoving catgirls and dragons into every game. Fucking kill yourselves and monster girls are still degenerate furfaggotry.
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>>377913718
Seems interesting enough
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>>377913668
Gerudo are just brown people. Ganondorf is just swole
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>>377913747
Whats wrong with dragons.
What are you? Fag?
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>>377913058
The boreal dwarfs and Orlan were cool
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>>377913873
Orcs are just swole brown people too.
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>>377913943
But he's like the only swole one. But you're trolling since you wouldn't even know what a Gerudo is if you only know the game from boxart
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>>377913893
>big muscular dragon humanoid
>not female
One job
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>>377914042
It's clearly orc inspired. "Tolkien had all males, let's make our orcs all female except for one!" sounds like typical japanization of western art.
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>>377912354
Oh totally, notJews, notArabs, and notSlavs! How does he come up with this stuff?
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>>377914110
Who needs females when much more superior males exist?
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>>377914143
Is it Dare I say it? a Tolkien reference?

But seriously, this whole "all fantasy is based on Tolkien" stuff is ridiculous when it's barely even like that and that every race in his universe is just based on mythological creatures.
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>>377913484
>>377913212
You both are average but closed-minded people pretending to be smarter than the other.
Why are you discussing? You're not going to convince one another even about the simplest things because you're both jaded and stubborn, so why bother at all? Nobody's going to learn anything in this discussion.
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>>377913943
Yeah but Gerudos are literally arabs
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>>377914161
Cuck
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>>377914257
>this whole "all fantasy is based on Tolkien" stuff is ridiculous
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>>377905126
>can't even play dwarf
>can only play human, human with long ears or green human with long ears
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>>377914161
Varg is a genius you nigger
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>half-orc
>half-elf
>half-dwarf
>never a half-human
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>fantasy game
>each race is analogous to a civilization in real history
>one of the races is even blatantly American Native, down to wearing hides and feathered headdresses
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>Fantasy game
>No humans whatsoever
What games do this?
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>>377905126
It's not. Tolkien crafted a great universe and nobody wants to leave the trope. Fantasy is pretty much locked into those 4 races until somebody breaks the mold successfully, which may never happen.
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>>377914375
Hahaha you fucking idiot thats the other half haha
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>>377914308
>>377914373
Varg is an autistic sperg, what are you gonna do about it? Burn down a church and stab me?
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>>377914375
Half human is what you get when you choose a black skin.
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>>377914143
Moblins are Zelda's orcs.
Gerudo are desert folk.

Ganon just happens to have connections with both of them.
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>Fantasy aces are just based off different countries, empires, kingdoms, tribes, civilizations, etc. throughout time
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>>377914375
Of course not. Human is the default.
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>>377914375
>half-dwarf
Where? I have never seen a game do this.
Kinda funny how you see all sorts of half-race in settings like D&D with shit like half-elementals and half-angels or demons, but somehow it's unthinkable that a human could EVER find a dwarf attractive
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>>377914375
I can't believe [adult_swim] got fined for hanging up led lights to promote their show because some retard thought they were bombs.
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>>377914409
It's not Tolkien that has made those races popular in Gaming, it's D&D and Warhammer.
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>high fantasy
>human protagonist
>human-like antagonist
>same shit like dragons, elves, dwarves, in every story

>space opera
>human protagonist, story revolves around Earth
>green human, red human, blue human
I really hope Valerian isn't like this but then again look what happened to Jupiter Ascending
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>>377914576
To be fair, hanging it in the Statue of Liberty right after 9/11 was not a stellar idea.
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>>377914384
>fantasy
>race of humans living in the desert
>its literally just Arabs, looks, culture, clothes, architecture, everything
>sometimes they put in pyramids and sphinxes for added flavor
WHY MAKE A FANTASY WORLD IF YOU'RE LITERALLY PUTTING IN EARTH CULTURES

YEAH BOI I SURE LOVE TO PLAY FANTASY TO INDULGE IN MY FANTASIES OF BEING ARAB/NATIVE AMERICAN/VIKING/JAPANESE/ETC ETC
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>>377914575
Or a dwarf could find a human attractive.
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>fantasy game
>MC is a human warrior
>his companion is a dragon/kitsune/demon female that looks like a little girl

F U C K T H I S
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>YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE GOYIM
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>>377914597
Where did D&D and Warhammer take their inspiration from?

Hint: It's Tolkien
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>people actually hating on cliche high Fantasy settings
if anything there's not enough of it, and most games that use it are often great, fun and beloved.
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>>377914530
Moblins are goblins
you

fucking imbecile
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>>377911905
That's because it doesn't matter, you only get a dragon from dragon on dragon.
Breeding with any of the others only gets you halfway there.
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>>377914819
No, mythological creatures that has been popular and around since forever.
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I will always play beast races whenever I can especially if they're cute.
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>>377914576
>I can't believe people are idiots
Really?
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>fantasy game
>orcs aren't bloodthirsty murder dick thieves
>orcs are instead noble savages protecting muh traditions
The American Indian orc meme has gone too far
I want Hun or Mongol influenced orcs
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>>377914780
>You are one of the chosen many, goy
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>>377908481
Aww that's sweet I wouldn't want commies to die either
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>>377914909
They have been around since forever
They have been popular since Tolkmeem
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>>377914909
>popular
Because of Tolkien.
They might add their own twist, but in the end it's still derivative of LOTR.
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>>377914510
Just keep telling yourself that. Probably wouldn't even have the gall to say in right in black guy's face. Bunch cowardly bitches, as per usual on this godforsaken website.
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>>377915062
>falseflagging this hard
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>>377914576
Meanwhile, some kid got praised by the president for dismantling a clock specifically to look like a bomb and bringing it to school as a publicity stunt.
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>>377915062
>wouldn't say it to a black guy's face
Well yeah, black people are sub human monkeys that can't control their emotions. I wouldn't fuck with a pitbull dog either.
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>>377905126
Soon hopefully. Hopefully to be replaced by loli arch wizard, good for nothing goddess and slutty crusader
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>>377914397
Zelda games technically since Hylians all have elf ears

Same with the Jak series although the first game is the only one even barely "fantasy"

And while there are humans in Breath of Fire II you control an entire cast of non-humans
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>>377915128
Completely different scenario, but whatever.
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>>377915062
>wouldn't even have the gall
>godforsaken website
>the gall
>godforsaken
who even talks like this?
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>>377915015
>>377915016
No they have always been popular, LOTR just happened to be written at some time before popular media could actually exploit and use those mythological creatures in popular media we know today.
Of course a book or tale written before 1900 could not be considered popular and as influential as something written in 1940.
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>>377914765
Indeed, I'd also like to say that I find it disgusting how every fucking game/setting ever cannot possibly imagine dwarfs being attractive, ever. The only vaguely attractive dwarf I have ever seen in a game was that party member from Pillars of Eternity. Every other dwarf ever looks like a middle age old man/woman
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>>377914857
>20 ft tall goblins
Although that's a bit much for orcs too...
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>>377915169
>not taking a party made of nothing but loli archwizards
Shit fucking taste
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>>377912697
What's worse is if they dont
>live in a desert
>always depicted as Arabs or Egyptians
>near cold places
>always depicted as big buff mountain men
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>>377915163
Even if it's 4chan, the fact you can just post that without a care says a whole lot more about you than it does about them.

Especially since there're people of every race who can't control their emotions, and I don't get the pitbull thing because black people aren't dogs, but I digress.

What did black people ever do to you, anyway?
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>>377915259
>Of course a book or tale written before 1900 could not be considered popular and as influential as something written in 1940
Confirmed retarded.
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>>377915254
I'd like to speak fancy like that, you know like some fuckin Dragon's Dogma character, but I'm not even a native english speaker
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>>377915492
Nothing, I have plenty of black friends, and I grew up with black friends. None of them have ever done harm to me.
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>>377910828
>>377911109
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>>377915163
Now that's just mean, Pit Bulls are very loyal and good family dogs, you just have to raise them well
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If you're so great then make up your own completely original and unique fantasy race.
>No elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, kobolds, etc.
>No anthropomorphized animals
>No humans with different color skin, long/short ears, animal tails, extra eyes and limbs, etc.
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>>377905126
blame Tolkien. Warcraft tried to innovate with space goats and talking cows.
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>>377915259
You mean like A Christmas Carol, War and Peace, and Oliver Twist? All of which are books that were written before 1900 and are pretty popular and influential?
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>>377915598
Little does this person know that women and gay boys would rather fuck a monster-man than just a human-looking monster man. I would know, I'm one of them.
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>>377915705
I won't lie they did a pretty good job there sure the tauren are basically just fatter minotaurs but they really did a good job on the draenei
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>>377915663
No
Why would I?
I'm a consumer, not a creator
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>>377915598
I always get a chuckle from the "Lady Death-Cap".
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>>377915492
why it have to be something to do with me if the still commit awful a lot of crimes while being a small part of population. + HIV.
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>>377913217
THIS
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bonus comic
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>>377914909

>wahammer uses Eldar as a name for elves
>literally the same word Tolkien used for them
>Tolkien says Eldar means 'children of the stars' to describe how Elves originally lived under starlight before the sun and the moon were created.
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>>377915589
Uh-huh. Even though you just got done calling them "sub human monkeys that can't control their emotions," right?

Whatever. Quit lying to yourself.
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>>377905126

The ones I really hate are the ones that have all their names be gibberish like Liel'tha'liin or Krag'Thur but they're still just orcs, elves, dwarves etc.
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>>377915205
>And while there are humans in Breath of Fire II you control an entire cast of non-humans
Every Breath of Fire is like that, barring Ryu who's technically non-human, but retains a human appearance most of the time.
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>>377916241
>Tolkien says Eldar means 'children of the stars'
>the eldar are space elves
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>>377916008
The same tired bullshit idiots bring up all the fucking time. Even if it is true, what's the point in stating it over and over again?

You want to focus so much on that you overlook the crimes other races do and the diseases people of other races have. Stupid...
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>>377916382
Wasn't Karn human from Breath of Fire I? I've only played I, II and V. And to be honest with you having played V first for the longest time I thought Lin was just cosplaying
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>science fatnasy
>human, robots, ayylmao(such as space elves or chuunis)

When will it die?
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>fantasy game
>has race of artificially created mages
>they are treated like shit because drama
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>>377915259
You really are a fool.
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>>377916571
never
hard scifi is niche
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>>377916554
Karn's a shaman, like the ones in II.
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>>377916571
Forgot the evil insect race that's controlled via hive mind
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>>377916571
My take on science fantasy:
>Humans
>Augmented humans
>AI
>Oh Fuck! It's humans but too far gone with genetic engineering and/or augments, is it even human anymore.
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>>377916796
Augmented humans and genetically engineered humans are a meme. Sure, it's going to be a thing for a while, but in 25-50 years, AI takes the cake for everything.
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>low fantasy setting
>humans only
>magic is rare and feared/hated as fuck

Alternatively:

>fantasy setting
>humans are the weakest race and forced into slavery most of the time by the other racey
>few free tribes live at the edge of the world in nigh inhabitable biomes to escape slavery

ANY game that does this?
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>>377907138
Scorpion tail > Furry tail + ears
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>>377916253
I've never been harmed by a pitbull, but they are banned where I live and I fully support the ban, and even met a few pitbulls.
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>>377905126
>>377906265

I did my own fantasy world as a teenager for DaD purposes.
It was basically european dark ages.
Elves were Roman empire with majority of it callapsed, scattered and burned to the ground. The other half still standing but abandoned many traditions in order to survive.
Humans were like gothic tribes that hundred years ago made elven empire fall but part of them was accpeted by the empire as lesser citizens during wars and those now try to rebuild fallen parts of the empire but thye are too dumb and busy with infighting to actually do it.
Orcs were like Huns, emerging threat that soon threatens all nations. Nomads, cruel warriors burning and enslaving everyone.
Dwarves were like celtic tribes, long ago strong rivals of elves that nowadays live only in far corners of "has been" empire. Still retaining their culture but inevitably heading towards extinction.
There were also other elves inhabbiting former giants lands. They partly adopted their culture and lived in remants of their cities. They are now bastion of civilised world but are too busy with their own politics and burreaucracy. And orcs threaten them as well. They represented Sasanian empire.
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>>377917093
Arachnids need to be purged
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>>377917291
Can I steal it? For my videogame.
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>>377917291
Boooooring.
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>>377910828
Female demon is just a regular human female basically
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>>377916954
That's why I also have the caveat "There is a hard limit to how much intelligence something can have" due to materials and processing speed.
This conveniently lets you have AI be as intelligent as you need it to be without it being the game ender it might be in reality.
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>>377905126
As soon as someone makes a better fantasy trope to build off of. So never.
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>>377917291
This kinda reminds me The Age of Decadence.
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>>377917348
no u
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>>377906448
>fantasy game
>no worst monstergirl species
Thank god.
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>>377913386

They are more fantasy Pooinloos mixed with Futurama Amazons than orcs m8 they aren't braindead brutes
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>>377917592
It's not like I can prevent you from doing it anyway.

>>377917624
so?

>>377917751
I guess. But I was teenager way before it was released.
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>>377915542
>tfw no nipple-less elf gf
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>>377905126
Fantasy game.
Humans are mostly medieval church going knoghts and peasants and whatnot.

Which games has them as anything else?
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>>377911791
>>377911105
>>377910683
>>377912874
it's pretty fucking basic alright.
Look at how we have 2-fold symmetry. That's because we evolved, as 99% of animals species out of organisms who had this.
But this is far from the only way. Starfish have 5-fold symmetry.
Or look at how all of animal skeletons have the same elements but in different dimensions and shapes.
It's all based on history, not on the fact that this design is objectively the best.
In some areas human body is absolutely shit. Female reproductive system comes to mind. Monthly periods that instead of being absorbed, like in some animals, have to come out and mess shit up. Or how hard the birth is for humans and how human should ideally stay in the womb for like 2 more months to develop.
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>>377910330
That's why it's sci-fi and not science fiction.
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>>377918943
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>>377918602
You are retarded mate. We have periods because it's more beneficial than the cycles other animals have. The human embryo requires a load more sustenance and needs a hyperplastic endometrial mucosa. Evolution deemed it more efficient to shed it off and menstruate than the alternative.
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That's why I like Zelda.
Yeah it's pretty much Tolkien of vidya when it comes to its fame but people often ignore how relatively creative the races are.
They all take inspiration from the generic races but have enough twist.
Gorons are a mix of dwarves, trolls and tribal people
Zoras are like fish elves without all the magic.
Anoukis are a mix of Innuits, reindeer and yeti.
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>>377905126
The reason I like the Soulsborne and Mana games so much.
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>>377916959
The first one is Age of Decadance.
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>>377919042 <- samefag here

Of course, that only applies to humans.
As for the second thing with the birth, I wanted to say you were half-wrong as well but you're pretty much spot-on. The most limiting factor of human pregnancy lenght is that the woman's pelvis is really fucking shit for this.
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>>377914375
one drop rule
I can't believe SJW haven't focused on this topic yet.
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>bipedal frogs
>fat humanoid fishes
>four-armed cat-people
I'd say TLR has decently creative approach to fantasy races.
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>Bird people in fantasy
>They're smug shitters
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>>377919282
The innovation seemed the stagnate pretty quickly, though and lent itself to early recycling of characters and ideas. (Haven't played BoTW though).
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>>377913484
Tardigrades can survive in space for a few days
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Tolkien model is so widespread, because it covers all the bases. You have three races with exaggerated traits developed on the basis of their lore and blank slate humans in between them. No matter how much you may try to come up with different fantasy species they'll always be the reskin for the Tolkien model with maybe randomly reassigned traits and flimsy excuses to them. So really, being creative with it just reveals a pretentious writer whose only goal is to stand out, while others prefer not to reinvent the wheel and instead put it to a better use.
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>>377920110
That's more to do with various badly conservative habits Nintendo has than the selection itself.
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>>377914834
They are beloved despite that.
It's still an overused and creatively braindead chice
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>>377916449
> t. nigra
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>Sci-fi game in space.
>Mostly all the Aliens are bipedal.

When will it stop.
>>
The only genre with any real potential is sci-fi because it's probably the most unrestricted, but even that still gets bogged down in tradition and goes unchallenged.
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>>377906960
27.... in self defense!
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>>377920684
100% this. Old fucks like miyamoto need to go. They all think they're still the hotshit like in the 80s and then they wonder why they're 10 years behind the competition
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>>377921512
Unfortunately they have a fanbase equally stuck in the 80s that will provide them with money no matter how stagnant their products are.
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>>377917202
Except I'm pretty sure black people aren't pitbulls and you can't ban the entire race from a place just because of what a few members of the race did.

Shit like that used to happen back then, but you're mistaken if you think it's going to happen now. All these silly comparisons to animals. Whatever.
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>>377913718
neat
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>>377905126
When people stop liking those races. I like them fine. Besides, when they're not standard, they're just reskinned versions of those races, anyway.
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When will devs stop doing this?
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>>377922515
What devs do this?
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What races would you like to see in fantasy? What racial attributes would they have?
What classes do they generally fill

Keep it reasonable
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>>377905126
Why should it die?
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>>377905126
you forgot halfling/gnome/childlike/beastman
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>>377911791
>When we find intelligent alien life, It will most likely be strange looking humanoids with limbs and precise manipulators like fingers
>A being without tool making physiology isn't going to meet us in space

What if we reached their planet, smartass?
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>>377923968
Gnome masterrace
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>>377905126
>different species
>call it races

When will it die?
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>>377926198
>"the human race"
>race
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>>377917202
What a foolish comparison. A pitbull and a black person are two completely different things. ...But enough. Soon this thread will be archived and I'll never see you again.

Think that way if you want. I don't care. You're not the first person to do so, anyway.
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Post gnomes
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>>377926198
>call it race
>it's really a marathon
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>>377926932
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>>377927225
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>>377913217
>Im a dwarf but I want to learn magick
>Theres gotta be more to life than this sprawling underground monarchical metropolis

>Im an elf but I want to learn about technology and be strong and see the world
>Theres gotta me more to life that this animistic hunter gatherer lifestyle
>>
>>377905696

all stealth archers
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>>377915991
I got caught kissing the cover of that dvd case
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>>377905126
Should make orcs slightly more human and a slightly darker shade, but keep the speech impediments and violent tendencies. Would add some nice variance to fantasy games.
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>>377915492
As a super cool practical joke on racists you should send your future children to majority black schools. Checkmate bigots.
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>>377914857
Moblins are gnolls, you nob
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>>377905416
>Science bless

...seriously?
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>>377905126
>When will it die?
never
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>>377929905

just how many of those night elves are female...
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>>377929905
The human and night elf I get but jeez
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>>377929905
It baffles me how many people play as human. In a selection of so many colorful races, they still pick the most boring and bland choice possible.
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>>377905126
When people understand that these races are flawless and stop trying to make differant colored versions of these 4 races.
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>>377915169
>>377915405
>ywn live in the crimson demon village with your chuuni archmage wife
Tractor-kun take me.
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>>377930926

>main char is a roegadyn MNK
>entire guild spergs out when i tell them i don't want to be a faggy healer/spellslinger as the grizzled old gent he is
>instead make a 10/10 waifu healslut on the side for dank heals

best of both worlds
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>>377930527
Most probably chose human for PvP.
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>>377932626
I think you vastly overestimate the % of people that play pvp.
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one of the reasons why Dragon Age Origins was boring trash
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We need more playable reptilian races in video games. They're the coolest fantasy race.
>Blizzard made pandas both factions instead of giving horde Saurok
>Naga still not playable
What's the fuck is wrong with them?
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>>377930796
Kemonomimi is the most boring shit, give me some real beast races.
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>>377934196
Very very niche. They're ugly and they don't even have legs. How does leg armour work on them? Boots? Fuck that's a lot of work for a race no one is going to play.
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>>377934196
People usually prefer reptiles as villains.
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>>377934459
>Very very niche. They're ugly
>that's a lot of work for a race no one is going to play
Look at >>377929905. They'd be no more niche than any of the other races. Also they look awesome, not ugly. Appearance is subjective, but to call them ugly is wrong.
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>>377913217
Implying people who pick these races in the first place have any originality.
Don't forget about the all powerful fuck huge dragon that will end the world if we don't stop him!
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>>377905393
/thread
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>>377935245
None of those races required figuring out new mechanics for lower body armour. They're so lazy with their armour assets, they're not going to put that kind of effort in just for naga. Also the chart you linked proves people only play conventionally attractive races.
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>>377935602
Just make the legs and boots invisible or a tube. They've already done similar with chest pieces for demon hunters and Tauren/draenei boots.
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>>377935602
Just enlarge one of the leg armor pieces and slap it on the tail. Boom, instant lower body armor.
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>>377935994
When they added Drenai they prettied them up, if they added naga I would expect them to be bipedal and prettier.
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>>377932070
>your mother-in-law to-be will never basically force you to impregnate her chuuni daughter
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>>377917202
Pitbulls being statistically violent is like the chances of a baby named tyrone ending up in jail.

Not because the name tyrone inherently makes a person a criminal, but because generally upper class citizens will not name their baby tyrone. Its a correlation does not imply causation type of thing.

Same with the dog, it gets a reputation for being a mean killer, so stupid niggers buy the dog and treat it like shit and make it mean.

This isnt to say that dog breed has no effect on aggression, and that certain characteristics cant be bred for/ bred out of a dog. But training overrides instinct, which is why dogs are domesticated in the first place. A pit bull brought up with the correct obedience training is as tame and people friendly as any dog, and any idiot telling you otherwise has no experience with animals or dog training.
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>fantasy
>is generic
>>
>low tier
Playing humans because youre a human
>mid tier
Playing other races and roleplaying their trope within the game
>high tier
Roleplaying a specific type of human and how they would react in that fantasty world. Something other than your own personality.
>god tier
Roleplaying a different race and subverting whatever trope they hold in the game. Like magic weilding orcs or strength elves
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>>377940570
>Roleplaying a different race and subverting whatever trope they hold in the game
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>>377929905
Why does not one want to play as the pandas?
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>>377940570
Doing a 180° on a trope is hardly original. Creativity is to find untapped potential inside that trope, like DEX-based elf barbarian.
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