May16
on May 16, 2013
Who are you?
Elves and dwarves have become boring. After seventy some years of Tolkien-esque dwarves and elves these races have become bland and over-used to fans of fantasy fiction. So we need new races. Races we haven’t seen before than can make role-playing feel new and exciting again.
However, as has been remarked, this can make your average adventuring party seem like the cantina from Star Wars.
I wouldn’t say new races are a bad idea, but they certainly need to be established: you can’t just drop an entire species into a campaign world. They need to feel like they belong. And moderation is also good. A couple new races are special but a half-dozen begin to crowd things.
Well, the creatures populating the cantina (pre-
enhancedgreed edition) were all the leftover costumes for horror flicks that never made it. So there is quite a range of era-lattitude there. And, it did happen long long ago…:)