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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5031634" data-attributes="member: 82106">Guys (or Gals or whatever...)! The whole reskinning debate has been recapitulated so many times on every 4e forum there is that its practically a trope. Soon its going to get its own entry on tvtropes!The long and short of it is that its a matter of perspective. Depending on how you see the contract between the player and the game will cause diametrically opposite viewpoints on the whole reskinning races issue. There's no right or wrong way to look at it and no amount of arguing can erase this dichotomy. For some people pretending to be a different race than the mechanics you use appears to be nothing more than fluff. "So what if I describe my character like X and call it X?" they say. They're looking at it from a mechanics centered viewpoint. The other side says "If you want to play X, the use the mechanics for X" and these tend to be the people that are primarily interested in the fluff and see mechanics as just how you run the game. To them changing the mechanics of your fluff is essentially cheating. Ironically both of these viewpoints consider fluff important, they just view the contract differently. The people who REALLY don't care about fluff just run the best mechanical character choices and could care less if they're playing a drow or an eladrin or a flying pig. Anyway, you can't resolve it and you can argue till doomsday about it, but maybe you can make a different thread to do that on? Its fine to argue about, just maybe not here.</blockquote>

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