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I hate cat-people, dog-people, lion-people, etc
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<blockquote data-quote="Gundark" data-source="post: 2072206" data-attributes="member: 6148"><p>A bit of a rant.....</p><p></p><p>One thing that uber-annoys me is when I flip thru a d20 book (or any game system for that matter). Is in the list of playable races there are cat-people, or lion people (that one seems popular). Or insect-people, or bird people.....or whatever. I think that this has got to be the most uncreative thing that you could do when designing a race. What makes it even worse is when the authors give attributes to these races that are stereotypical. What I mean is cat-people are dexterious, dog-people are loyal, lion people are proud and honourable. I want something new....IMO using animal-people are lame. </p><p></p><p>A few exceptions......Minotaurs, yeah I know they're cow people but I like the monster</p><p> Rakashas (yes I know I spelled it wrong). </p><p> Dog Boys from Rifts (hate the rules/company/owner)</p><p></p><p>I think why they're exceptions is that that in the case of the first two is that they have nothing to do with the real life animals that they look like. In the case of the dog boy they were genetically engineered to be dog-people....and for some strange reason it worked for me.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow anybody agree? Disagree? What bugs you about RPGs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gundark, post: 2072206, member: 6148"] A bit of a rant..... One thing that uber-annoys me is when I flip thru a d20 book (or any game system for that matter). Is in the list of playable races there are cat-people, or lion people (that one seems popular). Or insect-people, or bird people.....or whatever. I think that this has got to be the most uncreative thing that you could do when designing a race. What makes it even worse is when the authors give attributes to these races that are stereotypical. What I mean is cat-people are dexterious, dog-people are loyal, lion people are proud and honourable. I want something new....IMO using animal-people are lame. A few exceptions......Minotaurs, yeah I know they're cow people but I like the monster Rakashas (yes I know I spelled it wrong). Dog Boys from Rifts (hate the rules/company/owner) I think why they're exceptions is that that in the case of the first two is that they have nothing to do with the real life animals that they look like. In the case of the dog boy they were genetically engineered to be dog-people....and for some strange reason it worked for me. Anyhow anybody agree? Disagree? What bugs you about RPGs? [/QUOTE]
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