RPG_Tweaker said:I've never been a big fan of the "half" races. The Tolkienian antecedents, half-elves and half-orcs, were tolerable, but the ever-growing half-X races have become positively ludicrous.
"Gee, Mike got to play a half-vampire, so what's wrong with my half-gelatinous cube?"
I know it's just fantasy, but really... shouldn't there be a distinction between race and species? Or, in the case of the half-vampire, the fact that... they're DEAD!
Mind you. . . calling Elves, Dwarves, Halflings and Gnomes "monsters" is pretty harsh, too.Driddle said:The use of "half-breed" to describe any person, even if they're player characters in a fantasy roleplaying game, is offensive. These are people, not genetics experiments. The term needs to be eliminated from casual vocabulary.
Not to be inflammatory but I think, IMHO, that this statement shows a rather narrow minded approach and is a likely a product of our "Politically Correct" cultural trends.Driddle said:The use of "half-breed" to describe any person, even if they're player characters in a fantasy roleplaying game, is offensive. These are people, not genetics experiments. The term needs to be eliminated from casual vocabulary.
Mouseferatu said:What I would like to see is for the "half-X" concept (where X = any humanoid race that can breed with other humanoid races, the traditional ones being elf and orc) become a template. But I can see why the game might be better off avoiding that level of complexity in what amounts to a core race. And one could argue that something about humans makes them able to interbreed with species that cannot breed with each other. It would fit with the whole notion of humans as the "jack of all trades" race.
Driddle said:The use of "half-breed" to describe any person, even if they're player characters in a fantasy roleplaying game, is offensive. These are people, not genetics experiments. The term needs to be eliminated from casual vocabulary.
Khaalis said:Not to be inflammatory but I think, IMHO, that this statement shows a rather narrow minded approach and is a likely a product of our "Politically Correct" cultural trends. ...
The Souljourner said:Oh please. We're talking about fantasy characters in a fantasy world. It's not like you can hurt the feelings ...