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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3045763" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p><em>Demihuman races</em> are a staple, that's what I said. Not half-orcs in particular. That's why there's more than one race for players to choose from.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Than why using Eberron if you're going to stip it bare, anyway? What use will it be? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It would set a precedence: D&D works are supposed to have warforged in it. Right now I count two D&D/d20 Fantasy settings with sentient constructs - Eberron's warforged and Dragonstar's soulmechs. They're more than just an exptrapolation on the usual races (half-orcs: there's orcs, pretty nasty critters, and there's humans, able and obviously willing to mate with nearly everything. So there are bound to be human/orc crossbreeds; I do think that they don't belong in the standard race roster), I'd say they fit into much less settings than elves, dwarves - even half-orcs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not giving use the write-ups severely limits D&D: Now you don't have any rules for those races.</p><p></p><p>If you want a human-only world, just do away with the others. Look at Rokugan, they've made it (okay, they're the Nagas and the Nezumi, but they're a niche choice and characters of those races are severely limited)</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>So we have to decide which is better:</p><p></p><p>- assuming more than one race is in, and forcing people to edit them out if they don't want them</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p>- assuming there's only humans, and forcing people to make up rules for those races if they do want them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 3045763, member: 4134"] [I]Demihuman races[/I] are a staple, that's what I said. Not half-orcs in particular. That's why there's more than one race for players to choose from. Than why using Eberron if you're going to stip it bare, anyway? What use will it be? It would set a precedence: D&D works are supposed to have warforged in it. Right now I count two D&D/d20 Fantasy settings with sentient constructs - Eberron's warforged and Dragonstar's soulmechs. They're more than just an exptrapolation on the usual races (half-orcs: there's orcs, pretty nasty critters, and there's humans, able and obviously willing to mate with nearly everything. So there are bound to be human/orc crossbreeds; I do think that they don't belong in the standard race roster), I'd say they fit into much less settings than elves, dwarves - even half-orcs. Not giving use the write-ups severely limits D&D: Now you don't have any rules for those races. If you want a human-only world, just do away with the others. Look at Rokugan, they've made it (okay, they're the Nagas and the Nezumi, but they're a niche choice and characters of those races are severely limited) So we have to decide which is better: - assuming more than one race is in, and forcing people to edit them out if they don't want them or - assuming there's only humans, and forcing people to make up rules for those races if they do want them. [/QUOTE]
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