subtoot; I remain mixed on non-human PCs in TTRPGs
The idea that ancestry choice is like everything else in the known world of the PCS still fairly familiar, but as the party investigates underground/the wilderness further replacement characters are likely to be from those unfamiliar places has a "crunch" aspect too in any level adjustment. This feels very old skool.
Obviously I think "a cosmopolitan society resulting from centuries of magic, history and trade, creates no easy racist decisions about who are good and bad guys and also gives players more choices" is a good thing.
But now I *also* think, "we have some fairly distinct differences but at the end of the day we're all semi-culturally assimilated anglophones and it's the outside world which is full of weirdness we can't easily relate to" is a very 1970s understanding of the world. Kinda gross and definitely not how the world is now.
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* Unrelated figures, a ghoul or vampire bride, an orc assassin/Shargaas devotee, and a black backed jackal anthro.
* Unrelated; three genasi (half genies), a water genasi challenges a part halfling fire genasi as his earth genasi bodyguard moves to intercept. Trying to come up with genasi portraits turned into 6 residents of Calimshan in general.
feeling the connection between things;
the world is expansive, inclusive and additive. That includes that situations aren't simple dualisms (and in my case, simple dualisms I tend to believe and really hurt myself with all basically scream that I'm terrible, irredeemably unlovable, relating right back to being trained life is some sort of ugly competition) and that I don't know the whole story (which covers both a lot of anger towards others, and the horrible fatalism I direct towards myself).
@duske hope you're doing okay, wolfie. *nuzzles*
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ever go "hey, I want to listen to Purple Haze" but how about a cover that makes me want to run around in dead leaves in the cemetery or pull an all nighter to play "Changeling"?
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