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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5840406" data-attributes="member: 2011">No you don't. Not all. You just have to have races have typical alignment propensities and have certain races treat other races according to custom. Dwarves kill Orcs on sight. That's what they do. If as a general rule, NPC Dwarves do this, then PC Dwarves should as a general rule do this as well.I think racial stereotyping is exactly what people do in real life though. Ranchers hunt wolves not because they kill their livestock, but because they are seen as killers of livestock. Dolphins are consider intelligent and even benevolent, but sharks are not. So, one is slaughtered more than the other. Elephants and chimpanzees and rats and dogs are all in the top 10 animal intelligence level, but people use them for experiments and some people still mistreat them even in today's enlightened Internet knowledge sharing society. What would happen in a points of lights world where knowledge is not shared?In a world of multiple tool using intelligent different race creatures, that racial stereotyping would still occur. Survival of species (and hence race) would still be a dominant factor. Playing the game as if it would not occur is ok, but it's not very plausible. A lot of real life "human rights" have been assigned to different races in D&D by a lot of DMs and players, rights that intelligent creatures if they actually existed probably wouldn't give. Even in our real world, there are cultural differences so diverse that some cultures on this planet want to exterminate other cultures. If this happens in the real world with cultures, why doesn't it make sense that it should happen in a fictional world with races?What's boring is walking up to a group of Orcs and nobody in the party wants to attack them cause they might be NG and just be misunderstood. Gag. I don't want to waste a single second of my gaming time contemplating whether these particular Orcs are NG or not. I want to jump to the chase of whatever is going on (interrogating them, threatening them, or attacking them). Depending on situation, that might mean being polite and such, but as a general rule of thumb, those situations are probably pretty rare.</blockquote>

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