Search results

Ah ha heh whatever. I'm glad you actually went to the trouble to ask them about the "half-breed" reference. ... You did, didn't you? Since I started posting this thread, you sought out those people to talk about the issue and listened to their personal perspectives, right? Share with us some...

Actually, it has everything to do with the original topic and the unspoken (or in this thread, actually written) assumptions people have about other groups. The premise is the same, even if it is JUST a game. We have an opportunity to change other people's real-life attitudes by our behavior at...

Here's a way to test the validity of that position in the real "politically correct" world: Find someone you love or respect who has parents of two different ethnic origins ("race") and ask that person how he or she feels about playing a "half-breed" character in D&D. It would be best if the...

The use of "half-breed" to describe any person, even if they're player characters in a fantasy roleplaying game, is offensive. These are people, not genetics experiments. The term needs to be eliminated from casual vocabulary.

Delightful suggestions on the mechanics of mixed-race character mechanics. They're NOT in line with the initial topic, mind you, but lovely just the same. Labeling. Names. Characterization of mixed heritage/racial backgrounds. The maturation of societal issues inasmuch as they appear in our...

I know this may not be noticed by many people as it's buried in a fairly minor thread, but if YOU are a person of mixed race/heritage, please share your perspective.

It's not time to simply get rid of them. It's time to broaden our perspective on how to embrace their complexity.

It's also bothersome that the default description of "half-" character races is that everyone in that group must necessarily be depressed, confused, uncertain or otherwise unable to feel comfortable with both aspects of their heritage. The assumption is that all mixed-heritage characters will be...

I'm really hoping they finally drop the outdated convention of labeling certain characters of mixed racial heritage as "Half-" this or that, ala half-orcs and half-elves. It's bothersome for a couple of reasons, the biggest of which is that the undeclared half is assumed to be human -- the...

Dude, puh-leeeease! By calling this thread "crap," there's an implied insult toward the message crapper. Try to be civil. And don't call the moderators on their sense of fairness -- it never works like you think it should and just causes more problems instead. ... Not that I've ever had...

I don't get it. Is this a serious thread topic??? :confused: Funny sarcasm always confounds me.

"Dude! I got the cavalier in my PHB! What class did you find in yours?" (grumpy frown) "Acrobat."

Makes about as much sense as the way a bard's music inspires. (shrug) Comic book group fight scenes have characters making short assisting comments all the time. It's not uncommon for the nominal "leader" to do most of the tactical directing (depending on who the writer is and how he handles...

Don't worry too much -- you'll have about eight months of prepatory product fanfare to work out some sort of transition character sheet for the New You. :cool:

I may have missed this already, but what aspects revealed about 4th edition would suggest it's going to be more like Women of Wrestling?

From ENWorld's front page, a quote excerpt from Wyatt: "The reason there's a 'sweet spot' in the current game is that it's the approximate range of levels where, purely by coincidence, the math of the system actually works. In those levels, PCs don't drop after one hit, and they don't take a...

Gnomes are going to be baseball players? :confused: The more I read about 4th edition, the more I hate it. Furiously so.

So what did I miss?! Anything really, REALLY important about 4.ed released in the last 24 hours as I shuffled through my otherwise boring life, eagerly anticipating the next nugget of news about the Mega Important New Gaming System??? There's gotta be something new to report, what with the...

Barbarian Bob strode to the bar as only a Legendary-Level Crazed Defending Striker could. His steps were longish and with a loping intensity that suggested he wanted to imbibe a bottle of ale that had been mixed with an unknown potion, one which had been rolled at the 99th percentile for its...

Preset roleplaying-niches suck. Might as well just log online.