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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7156098" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Barring the most superficial possible understanding of all of those races, I'm not sure how you could possibly come to that conclusion. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Cool. So....go ahead and do that. What's it got to do with how another player plays their character? </p><p></p><p>For that matter, I don't know about anyone outside my group, but I know that we manage to do that just fine while playing humans. </p><p></p><p>Lastly, none of that relates to the question of why elves or gnomes or Goliaths "need" to be alien, rather than just different. Which they already are. </p><p></p><p>You just think about your dwarf living underground, being a person who is comfortable in tight corridors, with parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents around who are or will be a few hundred years old, as members of a race that has a natural knock for stonework and smithing. and then you imagine a complex character. It's not...hard. </p><p></p><p>There's no need for him to also be totally alien in mindset to a human. You can do that if you want, obviously, but the idea that others need to in order to be roleplaying right or whatever is just plainly nonsensical. </p><p></p><p>Also, try to remember that what you're replying to is a request for an explanation of the "dnd should be humans playing humans" mindset. I'm not sure how your response even relates to that? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If I'm parsing what you meant to type correctly, you just made my point. </p><p></p><p>The folks who say that dnd should be humans because otherwise it's just steroetypes or whatever are doing the thing you're making faces at. I'm challenging the idea, and asking for a basic explanation of the mindset that underpins it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7156098, member: 6704184"] Barring the most superficial possible understanding of all of those races, I'm not sure how you could possibly come to that conclusion. Cool. So....go ahead and do that. What's it got to do with how another player plays their character? For that matter, I don't know about anyone outside my group, but I know that we manage to do that just fine while playing humans. Lastly, none of that relates to the question of why elves or gnomes or Goliaths "need" to be alien, rather than just different. Which they already are. You just think about your dwarf living underground, being a person who is comfortable in tight corridors, with parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents around who are or will be a few hundred years old, as members of a race that has a natural knock for stonework and smithing. and then you imagine a complex character. It's not...hard. There's no need for him to also be totally alien in mindset to a human. You can do that if you want, obviously, but the idea that others need to in order to be roleplaying right or whatever is just plainly nonsensical. Also, try to remember that what you're replying to is a request for an explanation of the "dnd should be humans playing humans" mindset. I'm not sure how your response even relates to that? If I'm parsing what you meant to type correctly, you just made my point. The folks who say that dnd should be humans because otherwise it's just steroetypes or whatever are doing the thing you're making faces at. I'm challenging the idea, and asking for a basic explanation of the mindset that underpins it. [/QUOTE]
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