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« on: January 03, 2005, 12:40:48 am »
Not really anything I\'ve seen of Planeshift so far is truely original. In fact you could say there are no more original ideas, but it\'s how you use the cliches that counts.
Any of you read the Discworld books? It has all of your standard fantasy fair, but just twisted enough so that it is original. Trolls are just silicate life forms. Large stone creatures with brains like semiconductors. There are teetotaler vamps. Werewolves are just ordinary people with a social desease. They can shift to and from wolf form as they please. Elves are evil extradimentional creatures that feed on fear and confusion (IMHO the best implementation of elves ever). There are dragons but they are just stupid swamp lizards that explode if they don\'t eat right. There are noble dragons but these are also extradimentional, extremly intelligent, and powerful creatures that deserve the awe and respect the intsill.
Witches, wizards, living furniture, anthopomorphic personifications, all of these things.
On the subject at hand, I don\'t think at this point Vamps would fit. Lycanthropes might be a bit of a streatch, but Fable worked them in well to it\'s own world and it worked. I see no probelm with dragons. It just depends on how they are treated. If all dragons are gargantuen brutes, then that is just silly. If they all sit around in librarys reading from dusty tomes, smoking pipes, that would be silly also. A race of dragons that have varying sizes and attributes is the best way to go.