theme for a fantasy campaign

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Originally Posted by fartrader

That's what I was envisioning - the Dwarves would control the surface of the mountains, essentially turning the forests there into their lumber-stock for the compost to grow the mushrooms in. This would put them in direct conflict with elves, but such things could have been hashed out by treaties long ago.

Or not. A roleplaying setting needs conflicts.

One of the implications of this milieu is that there is less reliance on culture as a means of adaptation, and more on biological differences. So to some degree "elf" and "dwarf" and "man" stand in for cultural patterns, with lower cultural diversity in any one race. The different races as a result will have some of the tensions that exist in humans between different cultures—mitigated by their having biological specializations that make different habitats suitable for them, but enhanced by their tending to encroach on each other's habitats.

Bill Stoddard