Am I honestly the only one tired of elves being everywhere?
Well, I tend to look at it as one way of achieving the "correct" balance: Walk down the streets of Athkatla and take note of how many non-Humans you bump into. Apart from the fact that Halflings seem to have a legal monopoly on the position of Town Crier, the shortfolk and fairfolk are scarcely to be seen--and if you
do see one, odds are that you're going to be killing him pretty soon. Don't get me wrong, I understand that Athktala and Trademeet are
Human settlements, and the only race that does well at integrating itself is the Halflings, but really, would it have killed BioWare to have built in a little more diversity?
Of course, a big part of the problem is that every Peasant, Commoner, Nobleman, Noblewoman, Sailor, Civil Servant, Fishwife, Girl and Boy is assumed to be Human. Since this is the "Suggest-a-mod" forum, I'd like to propose a "No More Commoners" mod, which gives
every single townsperson in the game a unique name and portrait, and probably stats and Race/Class as well.
Uh, but yeah, everybody and their Aunt Tilly assuming that "Beauty is Elf, and Elf beauty" is rather stupid, just a couple of rungs up from Mary-Sueism. Say, just what percent of mod NPCs
are Elven, anyway? Has anyone actually counted them up? I've designed a few NPCs myself, and took care to have a rather egalitarian mix: 36% Human, 11% each of Elf, Half-Elf, Dwarf & Halfling, 8% Gnome, 8% Half-Orc, and 3% Other.