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Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw
There are just too many games that provide some self-aggrandizing reason for humans to be common
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I'd say the usual reasons aren't self-aggrandizing, but instead simply trying to come up with some justification for humans to be common when it's obvious from the game stats that all the non-humans are simply better than humans. In those too-many games, the non-humans are stronger, smarter, more dexterous, tougher, more magical, can see in the dark, longer-lived, etc. -- sometimes several of those at once. It's hard to explain how humans manage to overcome their intrinsic inferiority. Sheer numbers (usually from more rapid breeding) is a common such justification.
If you don't want a lot of humans around, much less important empires of them, then your job just got easier. You can just rely on humans' natural inferiority, and stick a few in the ghettos of the elven and dwarven and orcish empires.