Experience

[Brother Shatterstone]

Imagine a Marine trained to kill..

Obviously you have no military experience, nor do you paint a nice, or realistic, picture of those who do or have served their country... You’re right though; every marine is trained to kill but that doesn’t make them hate, or distain, every man, woman, or child they’ve, or will, ever meet.

I guess since I am in the military and my actions have lead to the death of hundreds of Iraqi that I have no choice but to hate mankind? Now before you ask, no I didn’t shoot, stab, or do it via personal attack, but it takes the actions of thousands to make our weapons of war functions.

Also my grandfather and my great uncle both fought in WWII, and both saw combat, and neither of them had/has long term hatred of the Japanese, nor did they hate mankind in general. (Their theater of operations)

Also your example shows what I was asking for, the use of a favored enemy as a nation, with you ruled against, though I can understand that decision for game balance, but I’m curious as to why you would think that?

How many functional member of are society saw actions in WWII only to come home and lead perfectly normal lives? How many serial/mass murders have you seen on the news cause they saw action in the Gulf War? I’m sure out of the hundreds of thousands troops in that war their would have been more than a few who qualified for favored enemies. If you start adding other wars to this discussion then your argument would lose even more weight.

Favored enemies mean you know where they carry their vitals; you know the size of their footprints, how long their strides are, rather their heel of their foot lands before or after the toe when they run. Knowing how to kill someone doesn’t mean you like too, or are more prone to, or that you hate everyone in that species/race. It just means you’re a lot better at killing that species/race than the normal person.

There is no mention of “hate”, “anger”, “distrust”, or what ever in either the 3.5 PHB ranger entry nor special update that was in Dragon that deals with rangers.

Personally, I’m rather hard to offend and I wasn’t offended by your example but others in this group might be and that’s why I didn’t quote your example…

BTW, just curious - why does it seem like everyone is creating characters that have bad feelings about the other nation?

It just seemed natural to me with my orginal idea, and that idea hasn't changed any...

 

[garyh]

Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood Mod to keep things civil.

Nothing wrong so far, just making sure things stay that way.

 

[DM_Matt]

Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood Mod to keep things civil.

Nothing wrong so far, just making sure things stay that way.

Speaking of friendly neighborhood moderators, is a certain friendly neighborhood moderator going to post his PC soon?

 

[Thanee]

BTW, just curious - why does it seem like everyone is creating characters that have bad feelings about the other nation?

I like everyone!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Granite doesn't have any particular bad feelings about any country. They all tend to blur together...

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Granite doesn't have any particular bad feelings about any country. They all tend to blur together...

I see some rather funny critical fumbles on the horizon.

Also my character is posted it's mainly work in progress but you can all "ooh" and "awe" over the lack of stuff I asked for only to change my mind upon it.

As you can see the background stops in mid sentence. *L* It's written in my head though.

 

[garyh]

Speaking of friendly neighborhood moderators, is a certain friendly neighborhood moderator going to post his PC soon?

Alas, not just yet. I have finals this coming week, which precludes the creation of level 12 character. I'll work on him next weekend, though.

I've gotten a better idea what I'll be going for, though - Ortega, a human paladin. Anyone who gets the reference wins a no-prize.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Ortega, a human paladin. Anyone who gets the reference wins a no-prize.

Ortega is a hot sauce right so I would have to guess your worshipping some sort of condiment god.

 

[Manzanita]

The hot sauce is the only link I see, but I suspect it means something in Spanish, like 'smelly old bald drunk guy.'

 

[Thels]

Ahh, there's an RG now. Well, I posted my char, but I got me the Complete Warrior today, and it has an update on Order of the Bow Initiate. Should I adjust to the update?