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CCorinnguard reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with
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One of the problems with bioessentialism in the game is that it draws attention to how poorly defined the attributes are. Your species... -
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The problem is the human brain is continually looking for patterns and very, very frequently sees them where they don't exist. In fact...
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CCorinnguard reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
What's always been really funny to me about people getting SO MAD about strong, brutish halflings being possible is that they...
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CCorinnguard reacted to Umbran's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I have no idea who feylin or garter folk are, so I cannot speak to them, specifically. But, I can try to address some of the core...
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CCorinnguard replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.It might make the game easier for the DM, but what if you are player who wants to play a human raised within a Dwarven culture? Your...
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CCorinnguard reacted to Staffan's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Also, having species ability score modifiers makes more sense when you have random ability scores. If you're rolling 3d6 or 4d6 drop...
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Bio-essentialism is the idea that we are more biologically based, than social, is wrong; we are a social animal. Even the old idea that...
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uh-huh. So, if you belong to an ethnic group traditionally maligned by loaded terms like "savage" or "primitive", feeling kind of...
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CCorinnguard reacted to billd91's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Pretty much. Since ALL of these factors can influence someone's inherent stats/talents, none of them bears any particularly strong...
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CCorinnguard reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I think there's a real difference between "Corvid people are just more intelligent than other species!" And ""Corvid people have...
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CCorinnguard replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.This would put language into their overall heritage. Culture would still be needed to distinguish one group of Dwarves from another...
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CCorinnguard reacted to Shades of Eternity's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Yeah, adventurers should always be the exception. I'd almost do the attribute bonuses, as the old saying goes, by guidelines. You...
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I figure that can be true of the average of a species, but it shouldn't be biologically essential that you, specifically (or your... -
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The goal I was describing wasn't to get people to try something different from their own, but simply to feel like they can try...
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CCorinnguard replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Moving the ASIs from Species to Backgrounds makes a certain amount of sense as picking up a certain background requires training in one...