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Originally Posted by Greg Hancock
Bellona & Trap,
Thanks for the support! Hope you enjoy the game more as we implement improvements to the setting and system!
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I have a sneaking suspicion you know Bellona and Trap personally (judging by join dates and post counts, both of them have only posted to this thread in all of RPGnet, which makes it all rather suspicious.)
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if I was to make a game using Elves, I would track down the most widely known original source material on them an remain true to that description. It's actually okay to have variants and similarities between peoples, not just re-use Elves, Dwarves, Halflings and Gnomes all the time.
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I'm cool with making new races.
But if your race is pointy eared (but otherwise humanoid), long lived, arrogant and aloof, you are describing ELVES. It's tattooed on their forehead, whether you call them Drakken, Drafdar, or something else that begins in "Dr". Throw as many apostrophes as you want at it, those are Elves my friend.
In other words, races like the Warforged (Eberron) are new races. Other races, like Eladrin (4E), are just renamed Elves.
And that's the difference. You don't have a new race, you have renamed an old race and gave it a few varying features.
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Incidentally, we had many great conversations with Prophecy players at GenCon, and we specifically asked them about the combat system and Felinor (just about everyone who came to the table that had played the game was asked). Out of about 30 inquiries, none had difficulty with either. One gentleman only had questions about the Felinor in regards to how he could sculpt his campaign around their culture.
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I just told my wife about the Felinor for the first time and she was rather angry about how sexist the race was. She pointed out an element that I didn't really catch on to, that it was just an unattainable sex object (and generally horrible exemplification of women). She asked if you would do the same treatment to men, then gave me a colorful description I'm not about to repeat here (just take Macho to the Nth degree and you'll get the idea).
I got to the Felinor with my group before they didn't want to hear any more about the game. I'll spare you the gruesome details, but I didn't read the entry aloud, I had them each read a copy of the Felinor passage and give me their honest impressions.