What does human-skinned mean? (very human-looking)
- dwarf, elf, human...
What does monster-skinned mean? (humanoid, but not human-looking)
- orc, goblin, undead...
In my fantasy there are 4 human-skinned races and 1 monster-skinned race currently.
- Dwarf (human-skinned)
- Ettin (human-skinned; ettin means giant)
- Human (human-skinned)
- Troll (human-skinned)
- Undead (monster-skinned)
Dwarfs = typical dwarfs, but with less stupid stereotypes.
Ettins/Giants = they look like humans, but bigger. They are nomadic barbarians.
Humans = humans...
Trolls = Their physical appearance is based on Neanderthals and they are barbarians, they should not be confused with cavemen because they are civilized in a Gaulish/Old Germanic way, but not as civilized as humans.
Undead = There are no varieties in my undead such as liches, revenants, zombies and other D&D cliches, there are only one UNDEAD, only corporeal undead exist in my fantasy and as the name suggests you are probably imagining a living corpse.
When I made this list I asked myself, is this the best you got? So you made a race of little-people and there is a race of big-people and there are shorter humans that look like Neanderthals and the only race that looks unique are the undead, I thought myself this looks very boring.
The most thing that bothers me are Little-People and Big-People, it takes no effort to create such races and I though to myself, this is pretty lame, why not just make characters that are born with gigantism or dwarfism instead?
Trolls are no exception and the similarity between humans and trolls is like between elves and humans, even though there are obvious physical differences between Neanderthals and humans, trolls still look too human to me and I think they are not worth including.
Trolls were meant to represent a North European barbarian society, I though to myself, humans are just as good at being barbarians as trolls, why the need for a entire race when humans could fill this role too, take Conan for example.
I am thinking of removing all races except the undead, but I still have not decided whether to remove the 4 human-skinned races because I don't know how to fill the gap, I don't know what other races could I have instead.
The undead are not a race in the sense of a biological species, but a life-state when ressurected after death.
And yet the only "race" that seem worth including in my fantasy are the undead.
- dwarf, elf, human...
What does monster-skinned mean? (humanoid, but not human-looking)
- orc, goblin, undead...
In my fantasy there are 4 human-skinned races and 1 monster-skinned race currently.
- Dwarf (human-skinned)
- Ettin (human-skinned; ettin means giant)
- Human (human-skinned)
- Troll (human-skinned)
- Undead (monster-skinned)
Dwarfs = typical dwarfs, but with less stupid stereotypes.
Ettins/Giants = they look like humans, but bigger. They are nomadic barbarians.
Humans = humans...
Trolls = Their physical appearance is based on Neanderthals and they are barbarians, they should not be confused with cavemen because they are civilized in a Gaulish/Old Germanic way, but not as civilized as humans.
Undead = There are no varieties in my undead such as liches, revenants, zombies and other D&D cliches, there are only one UNDEAD, only corporeal undead exist in my fantasy and as the name suggests you are probably imagining a living corpse.
When I made this list I asked myself, is this the best you got? So you made a race of little-people and there is a race of big-people and there are shorter humans that look like Neanderthals and the only race that looks unique are the undead, I thought myself this looks very boring.
The most thing that bothers me are Little-People and Big-People, it takes no effort to create such races and I though to myself, this is pretty lame, why not just make characters that are born with gigantism or dwarfism instead?
Trolls are no exception and the similarity between humans and trolls is like between elves and humans, even though there are obvious physical differences between Neanderthals and humans, trolls still look too human to me and I think they are not worth including.
Trolls were meant to represent a North European barbarian society, I though to myself, humans are just as good at being barbarians as trolls, why the need for a entire race when humans could fill this role too, take Conan for example.
I am thinking of removing all races except the undead, but I still have not decided whether to remove the 4 human-skinned races because I don't know how to fill the gap, I don't know what other races could I have instead.
The undead are not a race in the sense of a biological species, but a life-state when ressurected after death.
And yet the only "race" that seem worth including in my fantasy are the undead.
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