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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8349812" data-attributes="member: 6750908"><p>I am 1,000% down with weirding up the standard PHB races instead of (or in addition to) adding more weird new races, but it feels like the community at large is pulling very passionately in the other direction-- they seem to be allowed to have abilities and, especially, <em>sensory </em>abilities that differ from humanity, but any suggestion that they're <em>less capable</em> or <em>wholly incapable</em> of something humans can do is met with (sometimes harsh) pushback.</p><p></p><p>Which gets <em>really frustrating</em> sometimes, and I know I'm not helping my situation or the discourse any by lashing back.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>Last setting I had dwarves in-- which I shelved to avoid purely human racism-- they didn't have darkvision; they could innately tell the total mass and density of any object in their line of sight, roughly, and more precisely than scientific instruments at the current tech level (1870-1920) by touch. This is how they could live underground without artificial light, and this is what made them such canny merchants and miners. They also had heavily skewed sex ratios that I did some neat things with, culturally.</p><p></p><p>They also have the obsessive focus thing from <em>Dark Sun</em>.</p><p></p><p>My elves... in addition to being <em>physically weird</em> (think 2e insectare plus huldra), I took the "change sex at long rest" thing and ran with. Adult elves, by human standards, are <em>insanely</em> overconfident and reckless and instead of mellowing and maturing with age, they just get worse and worse until something kills them.</p><p></p><p>Gnomes, on the other hand, aren't brave. They're utterly fearless, but not driven by the same innate braggadocio that keeps most elves from seeing their third century. They don't know fear, they have little regard for pain, and the only thing keeping them from being <em>sociopathic</em>-- in human terms-- is their borderline telepathic ability to read people and a powerful drive to seek and spread joy. Gnomes <em>know things</em>, getting bardic knowledge and <em>legend lore</em> as racial abilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 8349812, member: 6750908"] I am 1,000% down with weirding up the standard PHB races instead of (or in addition to) adding more weird new races, but it feels like the community at large is pulling very passionately in the other direction-- they seem to be allowed to have abilities and, especially, [I]sensory [/I]abilities that differ from humanity, but any suggestion that they're [I]less capable[/I] or [I]wholly incapable[/I] of something humans can do is met with (sometimes harsh) pushback. Which gets [I]really frustrating[/I] sometimes, and I know I'm not helping my situation or the discourse any by lashing back. --- Last setting I had dwarves in-- which I shelved to avoid purely human racism-- they didn't have darkvision; they could innately tell the total mass and density of any object in their line of sight, roughly, and more precisely than scientific instruments at the current tech level (1870-1920) by touch. This is how they could live underground without artificial light, and this is what made them such canny merchants and miners. They also had heavily skewed sex ratios that I did some neat things with, culturally. They also have the obsessive focus thing from [I]Dark Sun[/I]. My elves... in addition to being [I]physically weird[/I] (think 2e insectare plus huldra), I took the "change sex at long rest" thing and ran with. Adult elves, by human standards, are [I]insanely[/I] overconfident and reckless and instead of mellowing and maturing with age, they just get worse and worse until something kills them. Gnomes, on the other hand, aren't brave. They're utterly fearless, but not driven by the same innate braggadocio that keeps most elves from seeing their third century. They don't know fear, they have little regard for pain, and the only thing keeping them from being [I]sociopathic[/I]-- in human terms-- is their borderline telepathic ability to read people and a powerful drive to seek and spread joy. Gnomes [I]know things[/I], getting bardic knowledge and [I]legend lore[/I] as racial abilities. [/QUOTE]
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