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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 6757466" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Weakness, then. Culture of Hats is a fine way to play D&D. Some would argue that races should be more nuanced. 2e certainly did, and it was one of the few progressive elements of the edition that wasn't picked up immediately again in 3e (4e did a bit of a hybrid: while elves have mindsets relatively similar to humans since they live in the natural world, their eladrin cousins have alien mindsets that are amoral and a bit unfathomable to us. In 4e, it's not what race you are that determines your moral axes as much as what sort of world you come from and who else inhabit it).  Plus, a lot of SF does the mirror thing too. I'd argue Fantasy is even less about the mirroring than SF is – Fantasy takes you to some fantastical place that is unlike reality. You're breaking away. That's why Tolkien is one of the critically successful Fantasy writers; he grounds his fantasy. But SF is usually grounded as a mirror of the now, with a few things changed. You get rubber forehead aliens and planets of hats that discuss elements of current society. When it starts going so out-there that it's not reflective of reality, then we're really in Science Fantasy, not Sci-Fi.</blockquote>