You made other similar assumptions. All speculation from a human perspective. The races in dnd are all human based no matter how hard you try. It's like making your own Xmen character.
Originally Posted by Dexai
Originally Posted by RatPackGamer
(Edit: Having given your post some more thought, I'm not sure the two ideologies "race of a character is irrelevant to a character's interestingtude (which I agree with" and 'Humans are more interesting)' are *entirely compatible.
They are entirely compatible -- strip away a character's race, and what are you left with? A human.
I think I really need to throw out some more philosophy here.
We talk about the human experience as if it is "the shared experience of all humans", but that's a flawed and limited interpretation. I'll make this simple by assuming I'm talking to men. As a man, do you know what it's like to get pregnant? In what way have you shared the experience of physically having a child grow inside of you?
For a man, the experience of being pregnant is as alien as the experience of a lizard woman laying an egg. We can never share in that experience; we can only share in the human experience by having it described to us and empathise with it by doing the best we can with our imagination.
No, it's not. That we are all individuals with individual experiences does not change that the human experience is the sum of human experience. You're just waxing philosophically now, navel gazing.
Originally Posted by Ayvah
The only experience you can truly connect to is your own experience. Everything else is the realm of fantasy.
And this is why I need to play an orc.
Don't sell yourself short mate
Originally Posted by Ayvah
"Orc women look like cute girls with smooth skin and human jaws" is the most uninteresting look for orcs, by the way. Unless it's coupled with equally girly man-orcs I guess, but let's be honest, they never are.
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