7th August 2020, 5:34 PM
It's tricky. On the one hand, if you treat them like different species, which they are in a fantasy world, it is clear -- each one is a different species, and the idea of an Elf with a Dwarf's bonuses makes no sense at all.
I get what they are thinking though, people treat them as something as much like human races and not different fantasy species, so saying "this race natively is dumber and more evil" has ... clear negative connotations in the real world. So, they do this.
But the problem is, they aren't real world human races, which are variants of a single species. They are supposed to be different species, and no matter how much a human wishes they aren't going to be as strong as an ox or something.
So yeah, I'm not sure what the best approach is. (Maybe it's "blame Tolkien for this whole mess"?)
I get what they are thinking though, people treat them as something as much like human races and not different fantasy species, so saying "this race natively is dumber and more evil" has ... clear negative connotations in the real world. So, they do this.
But the problem is, they aren't real world human races, which are variants of a single species. They are supposed to be different species, and no matter how much a human wishes they aren't going to be as strong as an ox or something.
So yeah, I'm not sure what the best approach is. (Maybe it's "blame Tolkien for this whole mess"?)
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