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Very tired of old elves-dwarves-orcs and Middle Earth/Fearun like settings. I could accept them if they're truly different in culture, way of life, and aesthetics (something like elves who are more like githzerai/githyanki in how and where they live while keeping the long lifespan, elegance, and pointy ears would be fine) from the old cliches but nothing so superficially different as DA or Arcanum (this was alway one of the biggest negatives for me when it came to Arcanum). Edit: In the end though, as long as it's well done and in the spirit of the old IE games, I'll probably still be able to stomach more or less bog-standard fantasy races and still enjoy the game. But it's very much not what I wished for.

I don't really see what's so naive about Keldorn (beside maybe his talk with the ranger whose name I forget). Actually I think he's a decent example of how you can do characters who are good guys without showing them as stupid and naive, though I think Obsidian could probably do an even better job than that*. (Also Andrzej Sapkowski didn't really invent morally ambigous fantasy settings, Conan was written ages ago and is anything but black and white.) *I mean, Dak'kon and Fall-From-Grace are pretty unambiguously good people despite a few character flaws, but if there's a naive character in torment it's probably Annah (and obviously Nordom). Edit: Don't take this to mean that I want something like an alignment system or some clearly good-holy supernatural power in the game.

I for one would prefer something without the classic tolkien/DnD races, and for all that is holy no more cheap racism anologies like DA elves ("Knife-Ears", seriously?). The only time I've seen a good racism-anology was in district 9 and that required a very specific plot + south african context to work as well as it did. If you could just as well write it with humans as with a non-human species (like DA getto-elves easily could have been), don't ****ing do it. If you are going to do something with racism, I'd rather it be human on human racism (or even better lizard-man on lizard-man) and instead of boring old ghettos I'd rather visit a colony or satrapy suffering imperial oppression from racist administrators (who are racist because they're imperial oppressors, not oppressors because they are racists, ie. I don't want the racism to be the focus, just a nasty little flavour thing). And I'd like there to be a logic as to why they are racist beyond them just being bad/stupid people.