Search results

And here I thought it'd be because the female warrior on the cover looked goofy. :p

Sure they can balanced, in a fight. Make them hit harder, fight longer and more accurate. Hit Points are an abstract concept. Who cares if your fighter is rolling 4d8 for his longsword at level 4 as opposed to 2d8 at level 2? (That'd be an unwieldy progression, but whatever, it's an...

And my point was: are you playing D&D or any other RPG to indulge your sexual fantasies? For most people, that's a definite "no." "Tap that market" ... we're still taking about the same subject, right? What are you thinking? If I blind-bought a module where rape was plot-central, I'm not...

Though, IMO, "in context" it's not much better. Fantasy literature is [the vast majority of the time] a far different animal than those fantasies.

Seriously.

Yarr, I said as much in another post. (Just noting we're on the same page.)

Yeah, but since rape is fact, and demons are [often] viewed as fiction (especially by the D&D crowd) it means that one is more palatable than the other to many people. And "many" is the important part.

Indeed, D&D has far more things than simply tieflings that can be found unpalatable by the group you reference. I think you're over-reacting, Kheti. Rape is a very sensitive subject, and D&D, as a rule, tends to focus on the heroic, so I don't think the addition of grim story elements is...

Though, that can be done with half-elves, right? Or, maybe my bias is showing, but I suspect people playing a 'grim' game are probably more intelligent than the baseline D&D user, so the same theme can be used without half-species of any kind. I respect your point, but I think that WotC is...

Right, I agree rape is almost a necessary background element for half-orcs... though some posters here are also arguing that the assumption of rape is unreasonable. Honestly, I think if the half-orc was "interesting" enough, WotC would've kept them. But if they're not particularly popular, and...

You're right, but I don't think it's a bad assumption. Orcs are a savage, violent species in almost all fantasy... so much that you cannot play a full-blooded orc. If they're not these brutal savages, why not just allow orcs? There's validity to that: but D&D has reverted to using "devils"...

D&D isn't particularly grim in general, though, so I think the removal of the half-orc is hardly damaging to D&D. There's truth to that. But we are playing D&D. The existence of magic in D&D, or various gods, could also be offensive. Demons physically exist, and forging dark pacts has its...

Sorry, "associating/dealing with devils" strikes me as FAR more palatable than rape. Ask a woman.

I suppose this is a legitimate point. Some races lend themselves to a certain archetype better than others. If you want half-elves and half-orcs to exist for the "conflicted outsider" archetype, I suppose that's fair, since if we really wanted to we could make every racial archetype fit into a...

That's a good point, if [some] orcs are civilized enough for a human to form a loving relationship with one... why can't the PCs just be one of those civilized orcs? I also hate "mixed" offspring. Edit: The Tiefling race nowadays is NOT from demon sex (which I hate conceptually... c'mon, sex...

Currently I play in the game using the "death flag" concept (I'm not sure if it's unique to the GM who also posts here, nor am I sure if he'd want to be named, so I'll leave him nameless)... Basically, you're not going to die, unless you raise your death flag. Raising your death flag gives you...