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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 1583106" data-attributes="member: 354">I guess I have to stop and ask why.Your going to great pains to make a world so alien that the players will be unable to identify with it, and at the same time trying to create this utopian existance that is removing or minimalizing almost every basic human concept. I'm not even getting into the polygamy or anything, thats one thing, but the rest of it...A DM I used to play under long ago had something halfway similar, to a point. He had made a world that was very alien and kinda utopian-esq. After a session or two in it, when my character died and I had to roll up a new one, I said "Ok, I'm making a one-armed bard who plays a ukilayly (How do you spell that? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) with his feet and tosses golden-gilded turtles as a weapon, and has the battlecry of "Chipmonk Fever!"" When the inevitable question of "why" came from the DM, I said, "Because it makes about as much sense as your campaign setting. "About a year ago as a favor to a friend I tried to flesh out (with the help of people on these boards) how a race of true hermaphrodites would work in reality. And they were just one race among many, and were otherwise 'normal', in comparison to other races. Even still the differences that had to be accounted for made the task insanely difficult, and I never felt it turned out very good. What you're asking for is something vastly more difficult.As an aside, I dispute the notion that making all physical charactaristics (and as others have said, where does this end? Is height random? Strength?) random is going to end racism. It wont.It will just make anything with a fairly human mindset redefine "race". "blueskins" will want nothing to do with greenskins... Purpleskins are inevitably considered to be untrustworthy, and whitehairs will be looked upon as typicly being wise.Or something along those lines.Most people WANT to feel they are better than some people, and part of a group of similarly better people. Its not a concious thing, its just part of how most humans think. Even if you have a race of almost exactly homogenous people, people find SOMETHING to set themselves apart.</blockquote>

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