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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6023957" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>Only if it's genetic and hereditary. Depending on how it's written, human subraces could be implied to be based on where the person was raised. So a human from a long line of barbarian tribes might still qualify as an "urbanite" human. And it'd be a good idea to have people on the borderlands, the rural farms that aren't quite wilds, be able to pick "wildling" or "urbanite".</p><p>And it's not about which is better, as neither is (or, rather, they're better at different things). One side might very well say: "The reason we live in cities and you live in the backwoods is because <em>we're better suited to it than you</em>!" And the other side would reply "No the reason you can't live in the woods is because you're too soft. You need stone walls and cleared plains to feel safe." </p><p>As someone who has a whole lot of relatives out in the farms of Saskatchewan, there is a very dismissive attitude towards "cityfolk". </p><p> </p><p></p><p>All people do is divide themselves. Westerner or Easterner. Canadian or America. East Coast or West. North or South. Republican or Democrat. Star Trek or Star Wars. Mac or PC. Christian or Catholic. Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America or Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America. 3e or 4e. </p><p></p><p>It's all we do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Except you can... every human is as tough as as dwarf, gaining the same bonus to Con. </p><p></p><p>Will people get offended? Yes. But as demonstrated by this thread, many people don't even want any culture in races. And even the implication dwarves are stouter or elves are more agile is seen as this suggestion that they're being forced into certain roles, that they're only good at certain things and not others. I think many people would be happy if race was just a cosmetic thing. Which is pushing the silly end of the PC spectrum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6023957, member: 37579"] Only if it's genetic and hereditary. Depending on how it's written, human subraces could be implied to be based on where the person was raised. So a human from a long line of barbarian tribes might still qualify as an "urbanite" human. And it'd be a good idea to have people on the borderlands, the rural farms that aren't quite wilds, be able to pick "wildling" or "urbanite". And it's not about which is better, as neither is (or, rather, they're better at different things). One side might very well say: "The reason we live in cities and you live in the backwoods is because [I]we're better suited to it than you[/I]!" And the other side would reply "No the reason you can't live in the woods is because you're too soft. You need stone walls and cleared plains to feel safe." As someone who has a whole lot of relatives out in the farms of Saskatchewan, there is a very dismissive attitude towards "cityfolk". All people do is divide themselves. Westerner or Easterner. Canadian or America. East Coast or West. North or South. Republican or Democrat. Star Trek or Star Wars. Mac or PC. Christian or Catholic. Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America or Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America. 3e or 4e. It's all we do. Except you can... every human is as tough as as dwarf, gaining the same bonus to Con. Will people get offended? Yes. But as demonstrated by this thread, many people don't even want any culture in races. And even the implication dwarves are stouter or elves are more agile is seen as this suggestion that they're being forced into certain roles, that they're only good at certain things and not others. I think many people would be happy if race was just a cosmetic thing. Which is pushing the silly end of the PC spectrum. [/QUOTE]
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