What’s your favorite “overdone” monster/fantasy race?
#1
Say’s it all in the title.
I still like vampires despite after all the Twilight clones and all it’s jokes. I still believe that they are versatile, especially since they are very very customizable. All you literally need is a deadish creature that takes away life-force for it’s own, you can give any weakness, any strength, any origin, whatever. They have a lot of potential and I think people don’t play up the undead aspect enough.
I still like vampires despite after all the Twilight clones and all it’s jokes. I still believe that they are versatile, especially since they are very very customizable. All you literally need is a deadish creature that takes away life-force for it’s own, you can give any weakness, any strength, any origin, whatever. They have a lot of potential and I think people don’t play up the undead aspect enough.
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#2
Oof, okay. Goblins, slimes, and rats.
As low level fodder, the challenge is always good and organic. Not conflict and challenge grafted into the story just to make a story.
As low level fodder, the challenge is always good and organic. Not conflict and challenge grafted into the story just to make a story.
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#3
Elves. Usually beautiful, strong and smart with mystical powers. They always seem to be losing, though...
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#4
Undead. No question about it. You can put undead literally anywhere for anything in any way, shape and form. That's all the potential you could ever want or need. They are almost always different from one story to the next too just because there is so so much it could be done with it.
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#5
Beast people. Cat girls, cat boys, kitsunes, wolf boys and girls etc etc. I just love the idea of human animal hybrids that get all the intelligence of a human, and the strength and grace of their animal. Plus in general I like animals better than humans so a human/animal person gets to be a bit above humans.
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#6
For me elves. Everyone has the same mental picture of an elf: some long, blond hair pretentious know-it-all with snow-white skin that lives in the forest eating leaves and hating humans. Even if one wouldn't hesitate to sucker punch me if given the chance, I still love them. Legolas was my favorite LOTR character, and I think that I never outgrew that.
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#8
Hmm I second Elves but I also like me some Orcs. They make for great minions.
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#9
Werewolves. They're just cool, aren't they.
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#10
I agree with OP. Vampires would be high up there for me. They're fun and terrifying villains. They're interesting antiheroes. There's so much you can do with them to make them interesting. And the classic Dracula vibe ain't bad either.
Also dragons! Overdone, but a classic for a reason, and still badass when done well.
Also dragons! Overdone, but a classic for a reason, and still badass when done well.
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#11
I don't fully know what counts as overdone, but GOBLINS! I absolutely love to death my beautiful murder babies. Are they squishy low level mooks? Love em. Are they misunderstood as monsters and we get delightful PoV's from their perspectives like in The Wandering Inn. Love em even more. Are they just kinda chaotic arson lovers like my brothers DnD one shot character and many of the goblins in Magic: The Gathering? OMG I love them so much.
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#12
Shapeshiters. All that fall into this category are still very fun to me. So many rules, so many different kinds of shapeshifting. So many different kinds of forms. Now if only people can remember, werewolves aren't the only shapeshifter.
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#13
Elves, because they are always the same and because they were barely used for anything else. Two of my favourite portrayals of Elves are in Skyrim and Dungeon Meshi. In the first, they became quasi-nazi, which suites them perfectly. In the second, elves are arrogant and don't take other races seriously, which once again, fits them like a glove and comes across as a realistic depiction of a long-lived race.
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#14Smeowglivion Wrote: Elves, because they are always the same and because they were barely used for anything else. Two of my favourite portrayals of Elves are in Skyrim and Dungeon Meshi. In the first, they became quasi-nazi, which suites them perfectly. In the second, elves are arrogant and don't take other races seriously, which once again, fits them like a glove and comes across as a realistic depiction of a long-lived race.
Oo I love TES elves, though while only the Thalmor are the quasi-nazis, several elves still fit the description of the Dungeon Meshi elves. I don’t know why I like them, I think it’s the arrogance, I wouldn’t like it in RL, but it’s appealing to me in fictional characters.
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#15
Humans. It seems like every book does them, but they're so relatable.
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#16
Gotta be dragons. They're usually kinda OP, but I'm down with that. Pretty much anything with dragons in will get extra attention from me.
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#17
Dragons. Although I find that they usually are characters that get very little screen time or the bad guys, which tbh they are dragons after all.
Big part of why my story is what it is. I decided to just do it myself.
Big part of why my story is what it is. I decided to just do it myself.
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#18
I love vampires, too. Three of my stories each feature pretty different variations on the concept. Super-powered space vampires inspired by Greek gods who become that way by infecting themselves with a virus, necromancer vampires that become what they are by crossing through a dangerous magical portal, people born as vampires by the light of the moon who can summon its light as blades and who feed on the blood of those born under the sun.
But my favorite fantasy race? Orcs. Why? They’re hot.
But my favorite fantasy race? Orcs. Why? They’re hot.
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#19
Maybe slimes. Games keep trying to teach us that slimes are "low level fodder" but if stardew has taught me anything unless they are one hit kills they are really annoying to face.
I like hearing about the reason they exist in a fantasy world and the customization that different versions can display.
I like hearing about the reason they exist in a fantasy world and the customization that different versions can display.
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#20
Dunno why, but I always gravitate to Dwarfs. They are usually on the warrior or the smith archetypes, but I've read very funny stories with the dawrf being capable of magical abnormailities or that make golem armies to fight their enemies.