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I think there must be something more here. If culture was such a broad palette to work from, then what do we even need fantasy species...

The originator of the concept of Orcs, and introduced it into the world, grounded them in racist stereotypes... Mongols, to be...

I tend to approach species description as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. The typical wood elf might love forests, but there's...

I have no problem with such rules existing in the text of a game (I have several that use race as class and have zero issue with the...

But unless the book conforms to my preferences how can I tell other gamers they're wrong when they house rule that away? /s

I read the subject of dispute as about things like "should halflings have a STR penalty". That seems fine with LotR to me. Likewise...

Follow-up note: Having one culture to one race just makes running a game easier. With the exception of tables that vastly prefer...

I'm really sick of this argument because it misses the point by trying to redefine the point. The problem is NOT (for example) that...

This example doesn't work for me; isn't the point of Frodo taking the ring require that he his less fit for adventuring and ruling than...

Basically, yes. There’s a difference between having four legs and being good at math. Or having dark vision and knowing how to use a...

It's a theory. I don't think the theory holds up though, because my experience talking with 5e players is the lack of mechanical crunch...

I think having very different feeling species is fun. But people take real world inspiration for their cultures all the time. And it is...

Bioessentialism isn't wrong where it isn't false to facts. Indeed, where it is true to facts it inherently important. It's a taboo...

I think the opening post was very interesting right up to painting event based adventures as railroading and map & key based adventures...