Unique races/ideas

Please, please, please don't have:

Orcs as the bad guys

Undead as the bad guys

Elves who are tall in trees with bows

Short dwarves in heavy armor with axes



Come up with some original races. Preferably, something not really done before. But, if you think that's too much, then just liberally rip from established fantasy and don't pretend that it's unique, like Dragon Age: Origins.



I guess I'm saying, either go all the way in, or just don't waste time and money coming up with something that's barely distinguishable.|||Steampunk Dwarves?



Mike|||Honestly, a fantasy that didn't involve Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs would be rather refreshing. Maybe just have every faction be human, but say one faction consists of Mages, one faction embraced technology, etc.|||Two Words:

Slime Faction



|||buy some rights... let it take place in morrowind... elves... orcs... ooops



seriously though i say no to orcs and dwarves elves and humans...



i want cat-ppl, bear-ppl and beer-ppl... and possibly mermaids|||http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Laguz



From the game Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, my favorite GC game.



I think an animal like faction could be very cool.|||Came up in another thread but what if the races/factions came from the choices you made early into the game. Basically a branching Tech tree where you can't be everything but whatever you emphasize comes to characterize your race/faction so there are more combinations then just three races.

So everyone is human but they part ways from there.|||scotchtape622|||And another cool idea could be a plant base faction. Maybe simply the return of the Queen of Thorns could be a nice reference to Demigod and make for a cool faction.|||DeadMG