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<blockquote data-quote="GameOgre" data-source="post: 6914726" data-attributes="member: 57914"><p>So I use a lot of premade settings. It's just what I have mostly done. I make adventures ect..but tend to play Greyhawk or The Realms ect..</p><p></p><p>Of late I had extra time on my hands and so i created a couple of settings. One's I thought were good but a little different.</p><p></p><p>Not like the other settings but ones that tended to be smaller with more things going on and with other races with there own powerful kingdom.</p><p></p><p>In one the elves used to have a world spanning empire but now have retreated back to only one known city in the far north. The Elves were bearded and used to have the other races enslaved or just created them for servants etc..</p><p></p><p>One of my players was actually hostile to this notion! Like he hated it. He expressed that humans should be the best and most dominate race in the world period.</p><p></p><p>I was kinda shocked at this and asked another player what she thought and she agreed with the troubled player.</p><p></p><p>I just found this funny and strange and started to delve into WHY this bothered them and it seemed to come from two areas.</p><p></p><p>1- they don't read so have no knowledge of this concept being around before. To them this goes against all the fantasy history they have been comfortable with.</p><p></p><p>2- They both seemed strangely unwilling to think of another race being superior to humans. When I pointed out that my strange elves lived for thousands of years and and had in the past at least mastered science and magic to the point where the built city chips that went to other words and other dimensions they pointed out Stereotypical negative traits they had seen in elven lore or tabletalk.</p><p></p><p></p><p>#1 above I can understand. If all you know about fantasy comes from either Tolkien or Howard then i understand not getting concepts outside of those influences. </p><p></p><p>#2 However touched too close traits and language i have only heard in extremely racist circles. Now I'm not saying these two are racist. I mean Elves and Dwarves don't really exist! But the stubbornly hostile reaction to any other race being equal to or God forbid better than humans sets them off on somewhat uncomfortable rants.</p><p></p><p>Now this isn't a post about what should I do with these players. I have that well in hand but what I wanted to know is has anyone else experiences moments like these before? If so what was it about?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GameOgre, post: 6914726, member: 57914"] So I use a lot of premade settings. It's just what I have mostly done. I make adventures ect..but tend to play Greyhawk or The Realms ect.. Of late I had extra time on my hands and so i created a couple of settings. One's I thought were good but a little different. Not like the other settings but ones that tended to be smaller with more things going on and with other races with there own powerful kingdom. In one the elves used to have a world spanning empire but now have retreated back to only one known city in the far north. The Elves were bearded and used to have the other races enslaved or just created them for servants etc.. One of my players was actually hostile to this notion! Like he hated it. He expressed that humans should be the best and most dominate race in the world period. I was kinda shocked at this and asked another player what she thought and she agreed with the troubled player. I just found this funny and strange and started to delve into WHY this bothered them and it seemed to come from two areas. 1- they don't read so have no knowledge of this concept being around before. To them this goes against all the fantasy history they have been comfortable with. 2- They both seemed strangely unwilling to think of another race being superior to humans. When I pointed out that my strange elves lived for thousands of years and and had in the past at least mastered science and magic to the point where the built city chips that went to other words and other dimensions they pointed out Stereotypical negative traits they had seen in elven lore or tabletalk. #1 above I can understand. If all you know about fantasy comes from either Tolkien or Howard then i understand not getting concepts outside of those influences. #2 However touched too close traits and language i have only heard in extremely racist circles. Now I'm not saying these two are racist. I mean Elves and Dwarves don't really exist! But the stubbornly hostile reaction to any other race being equal to or God forbid better than humans sets them off on somewhat uncomfortable rants. Now this isn't a post about what should I do with these players. I have that well in hand but what I wanted to know is has anyone else experiences moments like these before? If so what was it about? [/QUOTE]
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