Don't Make Humans
A few days ago in somehow actually a Farmer Gadda's discord we discussed the idea of humans in your typical fantasy games, especially seeing as it is, largely a D&Dism. I can't find the exact thread, but around the time of the Orc City debacle a few months ago someone pointed that out; mainstream fantasy fiction has largely moved on from the idea of someone just randomly being an orc unless the story is about that, leaving things like Dark Elves and Gnomes who do artificing to the domain of Pink Slime Fantasy. But within that milieu, things have calcified. Orcs are no longer a representation of the horrors of industrialized warfare and its dehumanising effect on those who go through it , they're essentially green Klingons, and (depending on your inclinations) muscle mommies. Reading through Joe Abercrombie's The Devils , I was gobsmacked to realized I had no idea what the fuck an elf even was in this world. Do they eat people? Interact with materi...
