Mirco-Blog ~ The Thing I Like About Elves & Dwarves
If you've read my Gobins post (or know me at all), you'll know I really don't fuck with Fantasy Races all that much. I'll play the Warhammers and I enjoy the OSE game I'm in right now, but by and large it's something I'm just not into. Problematic usages aside, Fantasy Races are just something that don't hugely appeal to me. When I go to art or play a main draw is exploring the human experience (or alternatively the human experience through a warped super natural lens[*1]), something I find a lot harder to do as Blorpo the Sea Dwarf with night sight and water breathing. Now I understand the word "fantasy" is used for a reason, and a lot of such races are usually drenched in allegory to try to explore something fundamental, but it's just never been for me really. Likewise I definitely get the appeal of being a silly little guy with different abilities and exploring being something outside the human experience. I don't dislike it by any
