Question on fantasy races

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

No different than the cookie cutter elves, dwarves, etc. which I also stated I could live without.

Sorry, I missed that part.

Personally I don't mind fuzzy humans, so long as they're significantly different looking. I use other races for two reasons: physiological roleplay (getting to be in a different body, but not having a different psycology) and "see beyond appearances to how everyone's the same". That requires that races not look human but still be human. So furries are a very good choice for me.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I just encounter people talking about furries as if they're a bad thing. I wanted to know from one of them why.

Yeah, I see that a lot too. Also, generally without much of a reason, if any.

I mean hey, they're not my cuppa (at least, they haven't ever been, that I can remember) but to my mind they make about as much sense as any other fantasy 'race' out there. What's more, it's not so hard (IMO) to contemplate a parallel -- or alternative, I suppose -- stream of evolution (i.e., pick another animal type, rather than simian, and go from there.)

But there's probably lots of solid reasoning I just haven't seen yet.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I think a lot of the anti-furry RPG race thing stems from discomfort with RW furries.

 

[Somebloke]

Now that's a good point.

Pretty much the most important point in the entire debate. A DM's purpose, method and above all reward comes from bringing these things out of their mind and on to the table.

 

[Desdichado]

(Also I just happen to hate humans and want to see them portrayed as the not-so-great-as-they-think people they are.)

I wouldn't go around admitting that in public.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

I wouldn't go around admitting that in public.

Well if they would stop agrandizing themselves I wouldn't have reason.

 

[Desdichado]

Well if they would stop agrandizing themselves I wouldn't have reason.

Digging yourself deeper. You should quit while you're ahead, before people really start worrying about you.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

...people really start worrying about you.

*starts up backhoe* That would be a nice change of pace.

I just think humans should start showing some humility when they compare themselves to others.

 

[Woas]

Non-human races are just for powergaming and munchkins. Especially the furry ones.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

It seems C.S. Lewis had something interesting to say on the subject:

" 'But why,' (some ask), 'why, if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own?' Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality. One can see the principle at work in his characterization. Much that in a realistic work would be done by 'character delineation' is here done simply by making the character an elf, a dwarf, or a hobbit. The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"