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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Quite true. I'm just not sure that the more specific you make a race, the less overall utility it has. A generic, troll-like race is applicable to a lot of worlds; if you elaborate them to the degree of the Uz, you start running into some corners that can catch on things.
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Maybe. But on the other hand a bland generic race might be applicable to a lot of worlds, but such worlds all seem the same. It's just as easy not to use bland stuff at all. If they must make a "generic" version of a species, I'd rather they stay true to the historical sources than to LotR. This would also make them a bit more generic, since historical menaces are more less well defined that the typical generic monster. The distinction between elf, dwarf and troll is fairly non-existent in most cultures. Dwarves ARE Elves.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Well, if there's a dominant theme in Glorantha, its mythic conflict; it just happens to be that that conflict is _particularly_ pronounced with nonhumans (and they get along _fabulously_ with humans compared to how most of them get along with each other).
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LOL! Yeah, the non-humans seem to have completely contradictory ideologies, whereas human ideologies generally only partially conflict with those of the non-humans. The exception being the Dragonewts, who seem to "weird-out" everybody else equally. Probably the fact they Dragonewts are virtually immortal and can eventually evolve into Dragons probably is enough to keep everyone else at arms distance, AND prevents them from topping anyone's "racial animosity list". Either thant, or said racial enemy got wiped out/eaten long ago.