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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1464408" data-attributes="member: 3146">I think the big fault here is assuming that all other races are "like us." The default D&D assumption for elves, dwarves, orcs, hobgoblins, giants, etc. is that they are really like a very small subgroup of us. Dwarves are honorable, vengeful, workaholic craftsmen with a strong code of clan obligation. Orcs are tribalistic humanoids that embody the worst of the various ancient propaganda stories about the headhunters, mongols, and Indians as well as the worst of the modern propaganda stories about the Evil White Colonists (TM) with all of the nuance and most of the exceptions removed. Hobgoblins are the same but they combine the worst of the Romans, Assyrians, and Evil White Imperialists (TM) instead. Etc. etc. In keeping with this, it's likely that non-human races would be similarly monolithic in their other practices. (After all, if the demi-humans stop being monolithic, they are reduced to funny looking humans that produce templated offspring).Expanding this to races like aboleth, Kuo Toa, Sahaugin, Myconids, Lizardfolk, Illithids, Beholders, etc begs the question of whether or not they're really like us in that respect. As others have said here, what makes people think that sex has the same meaning to species that don't have the same reproductive methods as us? Why then would we presume that they share the practices of the Kinsey foundation's interpretation of 20th century America?</blockquote>

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