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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 7927202" data-attributes="member: 7015707">Yes, but D&amp;D doesn't use the word &quot;race&quot; to mean race. For some moronic reason it uses it to mean &quot;species&quot;. You wouldn't expect a pig, a chimp, or a dolphin to think like a human (or like each other, for that matter), yet that's exactly the expectation you're demanding hereThis works for game mechanics, but for fluff there's a third necessary consideration even if we grant an inherently humanlike psyche.Let's take a look at gnomes, for example. They're 3-4 feet tall, they see in the dark better than a cat, their noses are super sensitive to chemical odors, and they take 40 years to reach adulthood. Don't you think that literally seeing the world from a different perspective is going to make someone see the world from a different perspective?And the orcs have the most outre senses of all. It's my understanding that in the later editions of the game they have a direct line to Gruumsh hardwired into their brains. He doesn;t control them but he's a bad influence that they can perceive no matter where they are. That's gonna have an effect. Imagine the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode Larry Miller Hair System (the one where carl gives the computer simulation bad advice), but starting way earlier in life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 7927202, member: 7015707"] Yes, but D&D doesn't use the word "race" to mean race. For some moronic reason it uses it to mean "species". You wouldn't expect a pig, a chimp, or a dolphin to think like a human (or like each other, for that matter), yet that's exactly the expectation you're demanding here This works for game mechanics, but for fluff there's a third necessary consideration [u]even if we grant an inherently humanlike psyche[/u]. Let's take a look at gnomes, for example. They're 3-4 feet tall, they see in the dark better than a cat, their noses are super sensitive to chemical odors, and they take 40 years to reach adulthood. Don't you think that literally seeing the world from a different perspective is going to make someone see the world from a different perspective? And the orcs have the most outre senses of all. It's my understanding that in the later editions of the game they have a direct line to Gruumsh hardwired into their brains. He doesn;t control them but he's a bad influence that they can perceive no matter where they are. That's gonna have an effect. Imagine the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode [i]Larry Miller Hair System[/i] (the one where carl gives the computer simulation bad advice), but starting way earlier in life. [/QUOTE]

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