"Fantasy is overused. Am I honestly the only one tired of aliens being everywhere? Write some sci-fi, people! I be delighted to see a horror novel. I'm partial to female characters, myself. Oh, I prefer black ones. Or Asians. Why isn't Frodo an Asian?"
...I'd understand "I have this mod idea (with some details)", but not the above.
Source of quotation?
Kulyok the Great?
The thing is, I'm seeing "young authors should write less fantasy and more sci-fi"(for example) in Russian fandom on regular basis, and it's funny, but quickly grows old. (Although I can understand these people: when I see some mod/book ideas, I, too, want to say: "People, what were you smoking? Do share!")
Still, when it comes to mods, gender and race and alignment of an NPC matter very-very little. (Take gnomes: there's Finch, there's Tiax, and there's Jan Jansen). Even when it comes to character traits(light-hearted, plays rough, swallows "g", pretends to be tolerant/selfish, is really self-sacrificing and so on), it only matters so much. Their words matter, their desires matter; execution matters. Whether I can believe in them matters.
I think.