Is the ousting of the monstrous races the beginning of the fulfillment of Gause's Exclusion Principle? After we see the monstrous races disappear, who do you think will leave next? Which race will be the last left behind? What would be the realized niche of the 'losers'?

All very fascinating stuff. I'd be interested to see how this will unfold. Any thoughts on the matter?

Dwarves will be the ones left behind. Dwarven physiology, sociology, and community are all so highly advanced and developed, they are, by definition, the most prominent and hardy of all the races in Sanctuary. Therefore, it is inevitable that dwarves will be the final straw, surviving every peril and every disaster where lesser races are cast out or destroyed.

Now, you might say that humans are more adaptable, which may be true. But it is dwarves, alone, with their +2 CON, who are hardy enough to survive in Sanctuary. Sanctuary, inevitably, will drift toward an isolated fortress of dwarven warriors, standing alone against the overwhelming tides of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them. While other races are cast out or destroyed, the dwarves will endure, and they will dominate, as only dwarves can do.

Dwarves forever.

If the Dwarves learn how to brew ale, find ores of mithril, adamantium and gold you can bet your skinny asses that the Dwarves aren't leaving!

*holding breath*

. . . . *exhales* Damn, still no ore.....

Plus, there is a never ending stream of newb dwarf 16/13/8/13/18/6 fighters flooding Sanctuary. The Thunder Blessing is finally having a demographic effect in the Underdark.

We are the Hydra of the NWN world. Kill one, and two more fill in to replace them.

FEAR THE DWARF!

Elfs... I like them... They look good

Hehe, The elfs will eventually win the day, because while only dwarfs will stay, only halfling and elves could stay while hidden (stealth experts), though, halfling can't perform search as good as elves. So elves could walk hiding becoming ghosts who could haunt any dwarf, scaring them to flee from Sanctuary. Thus obtaining the city for themselves. Long live the elves!

The beholders have already won.

While the server shakes with the resounding cry of '20 CONS, 20 CONS!'

alogen Elfs... I like them... They look good

Hehe, The elfs will eventually win the day, because while only dwarfs will stay, only halfling and elves could stay while hidden (stealth experts), though, halfling can't perform search as good as elves. So elves could walk hiding becoming ghosts who could haunt any dwarf, scaring them to flee from Sanctuary. Thus obtaining the city for themselves. Long live the elves!

How can you control something if you’re hiding hmm?

Answer = you can’t!

How can you project power, install fear in your enemies, crush them and drive them before you while you hear the lamentations of their women eh? These things only the dwarves can achieve. Our engineers will make invincible war machines whose coming will make all tremble & quake in abject terror, fleeing their coming with their pants soiled and boots full. The mighty hobnailed & iron-soled jackboot will be trampling out the vintage of wrath and kicking in the shins of those that live with the delusion that Sanctuary will be anything but a dwarven citadel of ultimate power!

ACHTUNG BABY! -DWARVES UBER ALLES –

:P :wink:

20 CONS man.

Svirfneblin are even more hardy than the dwarves, and yet they still were driven away. I don't think +2 CON will do it! I think in the end it's just going to have to be the humans. The Council is hugely human dominated, and I just don't see that changing.

City of Dwarves!

The rats will win the day.

The question isn't which race would be better suited to conflict against one another, nor which race would be better suited for survival against the horrors of the Dark.

The question dealt with the racial exclusion caused by many things (including the councilors, who are mostly human). Humans will win the day, of course.

Dwarves? Pft, the Dwarf-pox epidemic will kill them all. ; )

Thank you sir, I now know what Gibbon's next goal is going to be. >.>

I don't think there'll be one specific race left. My guess is that everyone will be wiped out by a huge dragon or golem. Otherwise, it's the gobos! Gobs reproduce so fast (almost as fast as rabbits) that there'll be so many that all the other races will die! :lol:

Although it is possible that they'll start killing each other, creating a mountain of corpses and they'll climb all the way up and drill a hole through the ceiling, getting out into the open surface! And not forgetting to let anyone else out or leave anyone else alive back in sanctuary 8)

The undead.

Lights in the mausoleum and the dead boggs and co.

They need not to eat, and no matter how many times you kill them, they just keep on staying not dead.

So when no race will stay alive, only the undead shall stay!

((edit))

Either that, or:

A virus will wash out sanctuary, and only the lowest of constitution would be effected, means the gnomes.

The matter is, this virus enchances the abilities of the victim into 26 in all attributes, making the gnomes strongest playable race in the underdark.

It won't be tough for them, to take over sanctuary. Then the underdark, and the world!

But... gnomes get +2 CON

But... gnomes get +2 CON

pwned *blinks*

Elves get minus to con... hehe, here again, elves win the day