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Enough with the armchair psychoanalysis and threadjack. The fact is that the internet breeds misinterpretation (due to its lack of nuanced communication and the propensity of many reading messages on forums like this to look for conflict) like crap breeds maggots. Yeah, I know from fly eggs and...

If we really want real diversity in our game settings lets ask for more Nyambe's, Al Qadim's, Kara Tur's, Maztica's, etc. from game designers. Places where PCs can hail from where they actually have different cultures as well as differnt skin tones, hair textures and eye colors. Dressing up...

There is something to be said regarding the idea that creating a false PC homogeny ruins the real and interesting diversity of the human family. There is something awesome about a black skinned warrior hailing from an African type nation in a fantasy setting where he actually acts and thinks...

I think that the theme of change creates a dynamic setting that a DM/GM can develop and the PCs can strongly influence. IMO campaigns without a strong central idea of change become calcified, sterile and dead. With change comes conflict and all good drama is rooted in conflict. Wyrmshadows

LOL I swear the internet must be surfed by an endless stream of loonies whose dedicated mission in life is to cultivate their own inner outrage by misconstruing the most innocuous things. Wow, just wow. I mention the Muslim nations (along with the Chinese which you oddly enough didn't infer...

POL is at best a regionalized phenomenon in a campaign setting To each his own. I enjoy fleshed out settings that I can alter to taste. IME its easier to cut away from that which exists than to create wholly that which does not. I am not referring to gigantic, sprawling settings like FR with...

LOL :D That is funny Forced to me would be an art layout with a black man in a samaurai outfit, a white woman in a Native American outfit, and an asian in a traditional African garb. Cultures are different and they are often rooted in ethnic identity the regions of the world from which those...

No problem. Your heart was in the right place, it was just that your eyes were betraying you. ;) Hey, we're on the same side of this issue. Wyrmshadows

Ruin Explorer, I think you are reading selectively to be combative. However I am willing to grant you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are reading the context of my words wrong. WoTC's 3e R&D team believed that ethnic diversity would harm sales. So my reaction was thus: Tell me that...

Quit being so pedantic. Tourism = travelers (ie. adventurers/wanderers) and immigrants= emigres (sp?). I didn't claim immigration equals mass immigration. Read exactly and comment on what I actually wrote. Trade brings various nationalities into contact to be sure. Trade also makes the trade...

Well I should have clarified. In the standard FR and Greyhawk campaigns you are generally hanging around in medieval lands analogous culturally to medieval Europe (superficially at best...because most PC have their teeth). In FR for example the default is the Dales, The Sword Coast (from...

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I am personally multi-racial (African American, Caucasian, and Cherokee) and I think that a decent amount of racial diversity in artwork is a good thing. However, let me say upfront that if I am running a game in a traditionally Europeanesque Western Fantasy setting than I am going to...

I hated them with the fiery fury of 1000 suns as well... just so you know. ;) Wyrmshadows

Damn that is a good idea. :D Maybe accessing martial/non-magical dailies on a natural 20 plus maybe a lowering of the number per X number of levels. Maybe this could improve by -1 per six character levels to reflect increased skill and/or inner power depending on the daily in question. At 6th...

Ok, forgetting my old sig..which though a brief source of amusement... in no way detracted from my overall point which is that too much abstration and gamism can turn a RPing game into a board game by sucking the believability and immersion out of the gaming experience. For those who thought...

Allow me to vent this and then share your opinion if you wish. I detest, I hate with the fiery fury of 1000 suns, 1/day non-magical powers because there is NO rationale whatsoever than can explain how a warrior, ranger or rogue wouldn't be able to use a certain ability more than one per day. I...

Travel is a great way to weave roleplaying into the game. The PCs and NPCs get to interact with each other, they get to face resource, weather and geography challenges. Plus, travel makes the world seem large and real to the players because the journey often takes place between plot points. The...

I'll be playing: True20 Runequest Pathfinder Song of Ice and Fire I will narrow it down more once I see what the final version of Pathfinder and Song of Ice and Fire has to offer. I will, due to limited gaming time, choose one. Right now True20 is in the lead. Wyrmshadows

I'm firmly in the internal consistancy/versimilitude camp. There is no way to realistically play an elf save in such a way that is in accordance with the standards of the setting in question. However, having said that, playing too close to form leads to cliche. One of my players loved playing...