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Original post by Ashaman73 @Edtharan Sci-Fi is always more open to new backgrounds, stories and races. Even with the "base" universe star wars and star trek, many sci-fi universes differs much more from star wars/star trek, than fantasy from tolkin.

I agree in so much as the morphology of the races (what they look like), but not so much as with the race names or backgrounds.

In my Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition campaign world, I have used the exact stats and imagry for each of the standard races that come with the core rules, however, I changed the theme of them a bit, and renamed them.

For example, the Dragonborne race, I called them the "Imun Kaje", which translates to "People Long Ago", "The Old Ones" or "Dawn People", or for an insult "Primatives" (I try to have atleast 4 translations of a name: 1: Literal 2: Formal trranslation, 3: Coloquial translation 4: Derogitive translation).

The Elves are called "The people who belong to the forest" (that is the formal translation).

So this idea fits with standard fantasy too.