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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7743634" data-attributes="member: 6816692">I stressed the humanoid and &quot;basically human&quot; aspects of these people in standard D&amp;D to make things easier to communicate with the other posters in this thread who come from a very different outlook. And to be honest, most D&amp;D groups will play their elves like tall, long-lived, tree-hugging, nature-loving humans and their dwarves like stocky, beer-loving, underground-dwelling, cursing humans. That doesn't mean that I do that for my campaigns, but that's what I got from a lot of people. Your people are definitely not &quot;human&quot;, but they are sentient, intelligent beings and most of them are capable of making individual descisions. Also, they are really cool and well-designed, so kudos!But they are also homebrew and definitely not standard D&amp;D. What I'm trying to argue is that any &quot;people&quot; capable of making individual descisions, who are intelligent enough to be in the &quot;human&quot; range and who are sentient creatures should not be, per standard definition, born evil. Unless these individuals have some sort of planar background that kind of erases their free will. This is at its core a philosophical issue as it tackles the question on how to define peoplehood and how to deal with such beings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7743634, member: 6816692"] I stressed the humanoid and "basically human" aspects of these people in standard D&D to make things easier to communicate with the other posters in this thread who come from a very different outlook. And to be honest, most D&D groups will play their elves like tall, long-lived, tree-hugging, nature-loving humans and their dwarves like stocky, beer-loving, underground-dwelling, cursing humans. That doesn't mean that I do that for my campaigns, but that's what I got from a lot of people. Your people are definitely not "human", but they are sentient, intelligent beings and most of them are capable of making individual descisions. Also, they are really cool and well-designed, so kudos! But they are also homebrew and definitely not standard D&D. What I'm trying to argue is that any "people" capable of making individual descisions, who are intelligent enough to be in the "human" range and who are sentient creatures should not be, per standard definition, born evil. Unless these individuals have some sort of planar background that kind of erases their free will. This is at its core a philosophical issue as it tackles the question on how to define peoplehood and how to deal with such beings. [/QUOTE]

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