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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 4210354" data-attributes="member: 2002"><p>My basic "Old Era" Homebrew, which I attempted to run twice in the past with varying success, was very racially charged.</p><p></p><p>Humans, like pretty much every other humanoid race, were a slave race to a more powerful natural magic-using race, the Calaseans. The campaign was set in a neutral zone between that powerful empire and their rivals, a space-faring psionic race. Dragons were the other Evil Empire, whose slaves were the Goblinoids, and they were allies of the Calaseans.</p><p></p><p>The Humans of "The Wild Lands" (as the neutral zone was known) were mostly descendents of escaped slaves, or themselves recently escaped slaves. Other than a few Dwarves, who were in a similar situation, every one else was "The Enemy". Especially Orcs, who were the basic expendable soldier race of the Calaseans.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is that the Racism of this campaign world was a fact of life. Other races *are* the enemy. When a strange and unknown humanoid wanders into town, there's no historical or experiential basis for considering it to be anything other than hostile.</p><p></p><p>(So when you see me complaining in the Bad Roleplaying Experiences thread or others about the guy who insisted on playing Half-Ogre, Half-Dragon or Half-Troll; remember that the campaign to be was set in this world, and thus his demands were wildly inappropriate.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 4210354, member: 2002"] My basic "Old Era" Homebrew, which I attempted to run twice in the past with varying success, was very racially charged. Humans, like pretty much every other humanoid race, were a slave race to a more powerful natural magic-using race, the Calaseans. The campaign was set in a neutral zone between that powerful empire and their rivals, a space-faring psionic race. Dragons were the other Evil Empire, whose slaves were the Goblinoids, and they were allies of the Calaseans. The Humans of "The Wild Lands" (as the neutral zone was known) were mostly descendents of escaped slaves, or themselves recently escaped slaves. Other than a few Dwarves, who were in a similar situation, every one else was "The Enemy". Especially Orcs, who were the basic expendable soldier race of the Calaseans. The bottom line is that the Racism of this campaign world was a fact of life. Other races *are* the enemy. When a strange and unknown humanoid wanders into town, there's no historical or experiential basis for considering it to be anything other than hostile. (So when you see me complaining in the Bad Roleplaying Experiences thread or others about the guy who insisted on playing Half-Ogre, Half-Dragon or Half-Troll; remember that the campaign to be was set in this world, and thus his demands were wildly inappropriate.) [/QUOTE]
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