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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: spywolf on May 08, 2013, 06:21:03 AM ---what if they biologically worked?/ were fantercy creatures not aliens that were made up
those would be okay?

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Sure, and if anybody did want to run bits of biology past me I would be happy to advise.

spywolf:
will do
*is planing on taking a biology based degree*
and no one is likely to read anything I write

Aminar:
I can say, I have an entire Urban fantasy world with this going on.  It can get difficult for a variety of reasons.

Are you planning on setting it on Earth or not?
If you're putting it on earth you may need to justify why humanity has never noticed them or create a series of myths surrounding them to suggest that humans on your earth did notice them.
If you are not using earth you have a ton of worldbuilding to do culturewise, accounting for these creatures and how they either affected culture/History or how they managed not to.

Where did they come from on an evolutionary level?

How much have they been affected by humanity?

Etc.  Etc.

But go for it.  It's an untapped market.

The Deposed King:
If I was struggling for inspiration and hadn't the foggies but wanted to 'break out of the mold' I would go back to some of the old Computer Strategy games of the 90's for my fantasy race inspiration.  Master of Orion I & II & III or Dream Empire's Fall, or Imperium Galactica.  Just take the racial types that fit your fiddle.  Alter the names and racial descriptors ever so slightly and wham bam thank you mam you've got both a live picture as well as growing mental image of some super cool races that have never been seen in a fantasy setting before.

Rinse and repeat until you've got a new fantasy world populated with rarely or never before seen racial types.



The Deposed King

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