Fantasy RPGs do have races of course but why should they be like the SIMS?
The pointy-ear races do have a base in mythology.
The forest trees in the ancient British tradition had spirits in the trunks.
Which part of the trunk? The entire trunk; and how does a standard and commonest leaf look like?
Pointy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
The fire-fly and the fairies are quite strongly related too.
The Imps of Divinity do have pointy ears too and they resemble the dwarven spirits of tree-roots.
The cocktail of those three races is the correct mix of a magical forest.
Elves, Imps and fairies.
On the other hand, in the waste land, the Arabian Desert has its own races to supply a wealth of fantasy from the Arabian Nights. We have the day Red Genies of hell who hold scimitars of bright blades spawn in the sun and rise with the sun with plenty of vitality.
We have the night blue Genies of endless manna and intelligence who are experts in tracking trail and nothing could hide from them but they prefer to choke you rather than slashing you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Then we have the green, black and yellow genies but that is a long story. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Deep and shallow waters do have another set of creatures, some with scales and some with long slithery arms.
Mountain and rock creatures are still another set of races, but rifts are most special because they are born torn. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Rift creatures or better call them spirits are immaterial and mostly spherical but with the texture of clouds.
Some of the rift creatures are fiery and some are dark and cold. The fiery races span the red to yellow range of cloud phosphorescence while the dark races span the blue to the indigo and are much more watery in consistence like a condensed cloud or a space blob. They can change shape very easily and drown the avatar rather than burn like the hot ones would do.
So with such an endless supply of fantasy races, who wants to relive reality in a game!
Not to mention hobbits (imagined humanoid rabbits) and well-shadows, mermaids etcetera.
Oh my! I could go on but readers would kill me already. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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