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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5378168">Now, supposing on the outset that the &quot;Beauty God&quot; was the case, it would indeed be interesting, because while it would be auspiciously objective(a god making the decisions), we'd also have to remember that said god may be subjective themselves.&nbsp; &nbsp;Inner impurity/purity visually affecting your appearance is IMO, a little boring.&nbsp; I find the world much more interesting when your &quot;spirit&quot; has no effect on your physical appearance. &nbsp;Likewise, we can still work with the &quot;human standard&quot; in the base D&amp;D world.&nbsp; None of the other races, save Elves and Dwarves have a comprable society, and those two keep to themselves as much as possible.&nbsp; It would be fairly simple to set up your world as one where human empires are so vast, that they define beauty for even those who are not their subjects.&nbsp; Seeing creatures with past empires and obviously non-human features(such as dragonborn) attempting to meet up to human standards would be interesting.&nbsp; Not that they aren't designed to by D&amp;D designers anyway(lizard-women with boobs what?) but still. &nbsp;But when it's hip to be unhip then isn't it still hip?&nbsp; You don't really have to answer that.&nbsp; It just kinda reminded me of all the &quot;non-conformists&quot; who conform to the norms of non-conformity.&nbsp; As my page also says, I live in one of those towns where it's hip to be unhip, so it gets old incredibly fast.&nbsp;To be honest I'm playing more of devil's advocate here, as I generally vouch for objectivity in most things.&nbsp; I'm not overly fond of the vein of feminist theory that advocates looking at all things from a subjective, personal point of view.&nbsp; Interesting and useful at times, but overall, it just leaves people incpable of understanding each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5378168"] Now, supposing on the outset that the "Beauty God" was the case, it would indeed be interesting, because while it would be auspiciously objective(a god making the decisions), we'd also have to remember that said god may be subjective themselves. Inner impurity/purity visually affecting your appearance is IMO, a little boring. I find the world much more interesting when your "spirit" has no effect on your physical appearance. Likewise, we can still work with the "human standard" in the base D&D world. None of the other races, save Elves and Dwarves have a comprable society, and those two keep to themselves as much as possible. It would be fairly simple to set up your world as one where human empires are so vast, that they define beauty for even those who are not their subjects. Seeing creatures with past empires and obviously non-human features(such as dragonborn) attempting to meet up to human standards would be interesting. Not that they aren't designed to by D&D designers anyway(lizard-women with boobs what?) but still. But when it's hip to be unhip then isn't it still hip? You don't really have to answer that. It just kinda reminded me of all the "non-conformists" who conform to the norms of non-conformity. As my page also says, I live in one of those towns where it's hip to be unhip, so it gets old incredibly fast. To be honest I'm playing more of devil's advocate here, as I generally vouch for objectivity in most things. I'm not overly fond of the vein of feminist theory that advocates looking at all things from a subjective, personal point of view. Interesting and useful at times, but overall, it just leaves people incpable of understanding each other. [/QUOTE]

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