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Plague Doctor background Well, now you've forced me to finish it. It's not properly speaking a physician background, but specifically a plague doctor background (though it may be more broadly applicable in some of its aspects. Attached and pasted. Plague Doctor Background You received some...

Social Justice Warrior. Generally, a right-wing-speak for anyone who causes them butthurt (cf. "hater"). Troll, because he thinks I was talking about race as socially constructed to get his hackles up, rather than just illustrating a point (namely, if we can deconstruct class in the game, we can...

Everything in my quotes, which was my 'description of the question', was the verbatim quote from the initial question. The rest of what constituted my "description" of the question followed what someone who agreed with the notion of no class in-game (can't remember who) said - that what you have...

Oh, that's the ticket! Utter the magic formula "SJW", hit ignore. I guess that clinches it. See ya, S'mon!

This simply means the validity or non-validity of a scientific proposition doesn't rest on individual studies, but on the state of the paradigm as a whole. As of now, the paradigm of "race is social" remains intact. And a scientific paradigm, because it at least provides opportunities for...

I like the flavor, and I understand the basic reasoning behind making this a rogue archetype, but still: What's the justification for a physician character having access to basic rogue abilities like Sneak Attack and Cunning Action? I've been toying with the idea of fitting in this sort of...

Pretty much agree with Minigiant. It's useful to get an animal to stop attacking you, but it doesn't turn it into your companion, and you don't automatically get to communicate with it without a Speak with Animals or something similar. I had a case recently where a PC party was tracking a crow...

I stand to be corrected, of course, but what I'm hearing people arguing is that "Classes are strictly metagame concepts and have no meaning in game". Perhaps I heard that in the wording of the initial survey. And I hear people saying that of course there is flavor, but the flavor is a "character...

People just want to begin with the metagame assumption that the crunch is real, and the fluff is not. Then, after they've excised the fluff (i.e. changed the text), they can translate the IRL crunch into gameworld fluff, and then claim that their various translations are accurate. But what if...

Yes, but it's a planet that came into being prior to its sun and moon [!] on which it's impossible to sail from one continent to another (Aman), and on one of the continents, it's possible to live forever. And it's possible for continent-sized islands to sink into the sea. And in any event, it's...

It may be more work to figure out how everything works, yes. But if we look at well-established fantasy worlds, are we absolutely sure they're planets? Is Middle Earth on a planet? Is Narnia? On top of that, a lot of non-standard worlds have already been mapped out for us, so the hard work of...

I certainly agree that designing a larger world is fun, and it gives you as a GM a better sense of the surroundings, the history, and various influences. The only thing that irks me is the easy assumption that the fantasy world must resemble our modern idea of what a "world" is - i.e. a spheroid...

Good thing cowardly scientists have bold gamers exposing their bunk!

Sniff... Well they would have a vested interest to maintain the racial conceit, wouldn't they? -Kirill Yeskov, The Last Ringbearer (emphasis mine) http://fan.lib.ru/img/e/eskov/last_ringbearer_engl/last_ring_bearer.pdf

Ezekiel: It is entirely possible to treat either, both or neither race or class as sets of mechanics that are independent of any in-game fiction in any given setting. What you should do is avoid saying that one (race) must have an in game reality whereas the other (class) does not because that's...

As it stands, established scientific disciplines across the board regard race as a social construct, not because social factors are merely "present", but because the evidence of their efficacy in the formation of race is much stronger. If you have evidence of how genetic mechanisms produce...

I am empireofchaos simply as a mirror, for this and other shenanigans. :P http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23684745 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Templeton

OK, then your "sensible definition" is at variance with both biological and social sciences, so I rest my case.

Yes, because what constitutes a racial distinction is socially defined (that's been the argument all along). The descent groups (such as they are) that are classified by population genetics are not racial groups. Generally, in humans, 85% of all genetic variation is within such groups, and...

These are the links to the Middle Earth demographics I was referencing earlier: http://www.sf-worlds.com/middle-earth/populations/ http://www.stephenwigmore.com/2012/08/populations-of-middle-earth-lord-of.html