Elves invented wooden folding chairs and then the dwarves made them from metal for better weapon usage.
“Oh tha’s nice. Good grip on the bottom, large top to hit with, large middle for deflection. Too bad ya made it out of this weak wood or it would be an excellent weapon!”
“That is a chair you brute! Was a chair. Now it’s fire wood…”
“Ya can sit on it too? Genius! Just needs a place to hold a drink and it could be perfect!”
“… That’s a good idea, actually…”
I can just picture it now. A dwarven hell in a cell style match. Someone gets knocked back into an open chair in classic comedic WWE style and the whole crowd goes quiet. All you can hear is the collective thunk of thousands of chairs suddenly opening.
I am currently reading Cryptomancer, a game with crystals to do kind of Internet things.
Hmm…a certain author has elves running a car racing team, but that’s not an rpg.
My setting has technology more-or-less equivalent to Earth’s 17th century, and a big chunk of my inspiration is Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. The books detail the steps that led to the industrial revolution so my setting also has similar early tech, aided by magic of course.
(Airships, for example, use magic derived from Resilient Sphere to make their balloons supernaturally rigid and impermeable, then instead of filling it with a lifting gas they just evacuate all air from it. Their hulls look like solid wood but they are instead a honeycomb structure made of giant spider silk sandwiched between thin wooden veneers to keep the cold air out, and reinforced with the occasional mithral spar. The propulsion is purely magic though, the props are powered by aetherosiphon engines. There are some secret military projects aimed at creating a fully-pressurized heavier-than-air skyship that can actually fly over the taller mountain ranges; since their passenger compartment is not pressurized, a standard skyship’s maximal cruising altitude is 3-3.5 kilometers while a trained military crew can maybe get up to 4.5 km.)
