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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8350291" data-attributes="member: 6915329">The current lizardfolk lore isn't that they eat people, it's that they don't waste dead bodies when they could be used as food. They're not &quot;adventuring with livestock.&quot; They're adventuring with allies. If and when those allies die, then to a lizardfolk, it makes sense to consume the body rather than let it go to waste by burying or burning it. But for the most part, they wouldn't hunt other humanoids for food. Especially not when animals are easier to eat and rarely have class levels.In the real world, cannibalism as a societal practice is often a highly ritualized and religious thing. You're confusing that with cannibalism engaged in by people who are in famine conditions or with mentally ill individuals. You can combine that with the lizardfolk example above, that a lizardfolk eats a dead ally both to not waste the meat and to keep some of the essence of that ally with them.Personally, I've seen very little self-insertion in fantasy worlds. Rather, I see people building worlds that are interesting and fun to play in--and bigotry is neither interesting nor fun (except to bigots, of course).For starters, I'd imagine that a lot of worldbuilders enjoy writing those cultural/species differences. And there's plenty of gamers who will adopt some of those mores for their characters, even if they don't use them all or go whole-hog. And there's plenty of gamers who will use the given information as a prompt for creating their characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8350291, member: 6915329"] The current lizardfolk lore isn't that they eat people, it's that they don't waste dead bodies when they could be used as food. They're not "adventuring with livestock." They're adventuring with allies. If and when those allies die, then to a lizardfolk, it makes sense to consume the body rather than let it go to waste by burying or burning it. But for the most part, they wouldn't hunt other humanoids for food. Especially not when animals are easier to eat and rarely have class levels. In the real world, cannibalism as a [I]societal practice [/I]is often a highly ritualized and religious thing. You're confusing that with cannibalism engaged in by people who are in famine conditions or with mentally ill individuals. You can combine that with the lizardfolk example above, that a lizardfolk eats a dead ally both to not waste the meat and to keep some of the essence of that ally with them. Personally, I've seen very little self-insertion in fantasy worlds. Rather, I see people building worlds that are interesting and fun to play in--and bigotry is neither interesting nor fun (except to bigots, of course). For starters, I'd imagine that a lot of worldbuilders enjoy writing those cultural/species differences. And there's plenty of gamers who will adopt [I]some [/I]of those mores for their characters, even if they don't use them all or go whole-hog. And there's plenty of gamers who will use the given information as a prompt for creating their characters. [/QUOTE]

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