Not so much of a game as... I really want to figure out what book this was! I guess it can be a game but anyway, there was a fantasy novel I read a while ago, it was part of a trilogy, about elves, humans and dragons. Without spoiling much of the story, the elves were from another dimension, as were the dragons I think but they basically hiding for most of the story. The elves enslave the human population and control their breeding because of certain psionic potentials they have. So the story proper begins with a rivalry between 2 concubines of one of the most powerful elves, the concubines are basically administered birth control through their food because they can give birth to halflings, so the favored concubine gets screwed over by her rival and ends up pregnant. She's able to escape but dies carrying her child through the desert, where she's found by a dragon who adopts the child.
So yeah, if anyone knows the name of the book post it here. It's one of the few books I ever enjoyed reading. This would probably be a fun premise for a forum game too.
Every sci-fan series ever?
Sorry. Don't mean to turn this into a rant about how they're all the same, but you may as well ask what book it was, that had words in it.
But maybe somebody knows.
Seriously, though. After Tolkein, things got really stagnant, and really stale.
I prefer classic fantasy. Like the stuff coming from Alice in Wonderland, or Wizard of Oz.
Neil Gaiman, basically.
Sci-fan, if it isn't swords and sorcery, it's elves humans, and dragons. Been there, done that.
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Huh... yeah I don't read much... at all. So I didn't know the story was that generic XD Lemme see, the dragons hid themselves, and had the ability to change shape into human form. Basically the world at large didn't know dragons existed till the end of the book. There was also a thing about the elves using magic to change weather patterns, and the dragons would work to undo the changes. As for the elves, they were basically in a constant decline power-wise, because the children were always weaker than their parents, where as halflings basically had unlimited potential. I do remember one of the major plot points, around the middle of the book, the daughter of the concubine that was brought up by dragons met up with a pure blood elf that was her half brother, who was sympathetic to humans. He dies in the end of the book fighting his father, blows up some kind of crystal which held some of his father's magical powers and takes them both out.
If nothing else, maybe a suggestion for a similar title that's worth reading?
Were the halflings referred to as halflings? Or any of the other races? Usually they get some made up name they call themselves by. The specific words can often narrow things down. May be hard to remember, though, because, again, all books do this, and they all sound the same.
You can always tell who the orcs are (it's sad that just using the term orc is enough to describe the bad guys. It's used so often), who the dwarves are, who the elves, humans, and dragons are, because the conventions are so set in their ways.
Also, all sci-fan dragons can turn into human form. If you're into dragons as part of a story, and don't want a book where the purple prose comes at you so fast it has blue-shifted into gamma ray prose, (Eragon. I'm talking about the Eragon books.) you may look into the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey, or, and this series I really liked, because it didn't seem quite so cliched, Magician, by Raymond Feist.
The Pern books you'd want to read in the order they were written, as is generally true with most series. Magician is made up of two books, Apprentice, and Master. Then there are a few direct sequels, and a whole bunch of indirect ones. Haven't read most of those, but the main series I found very easy to read, while I normally find sci-fan similar to hacking through an unremarkable jungle with a dull machete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician_%28novel%29
If you can't find the book you can't remember, I'd say start with Feist.
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As far as I can remember they weren't referred to as halflings because they basically killed them off as soon as they found them, it was sort of like a dirty little secret. Another thing I remember which I thought was cool at the time, there was a brief part of the story where an elf woman was a possible wife for the elf bad guy, but she had a relatively weak power which she used to alter the shape of flowers, but someone (I think a dragon) put the idea in her head that even a weak power like that could be used to alter the shape of say the heart and kill someone. I liked the foreshadowing since it was never brought up in the book again, so I'm assuming it's a plot point in a later book. I also remember there was a powerful female elf that I think helped the protagonists at some point, she had male concubines but she killed her favorite when he got jealous of one of the protagonists (probably the main protagonist's elf brother) and tried to attack him. And she was one of the few elves that had any level of tolerance for humans.
As far as orcs and such there weren't any other races in the book I read, just the dragons, humans and elves. I can't really remember any specific names or I could probably Google search it.