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Old 09-16-2018, 06:51 PM   #3
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Default Re: [Creative] Trying to build a fantasy setting.

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Originally Posted by Anaraxes View Post
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.
It still seriously bothers me: it's a slippery slope to unfortunately implications I'd rather never be on.
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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.
That reasoning still feels uncomfortable.

I much prefer the idea that the "human" level/niche is simply taken up by a wider variety of races/species that aren't OP but still have some distinctions.

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