R&C Spotlight Interview with Michelle Carter

[Frostmarrow]

elven paladin didn't have to worry about being slowed down by heavy armor as much. Why?

Because they don't have to wear heavy armor at all?

 

[Zweischneid]

The issue is the implied.. 'violence'.. of the implied origins - something not implied by half elves.

/shrug, the implied 'violence'-part can hardly be an issue in a game designed around excessive wanton slaughter for material gains. So it'd have to be the 'interracial sexuality'-part that WoTC feels unhappy about.. and that'd apply to all half-somethings.

 

[MonkeeGalore]

/shrug, the implied 'violence'-part can hardly be an issue in a game designed around excessive wanton slaughter for material gains. So it'd have to be the 'interracial sexuality'-part that WoTC feels unhappy about.. and that'd apply to all half-somethings.

Don’t you think that it’s because that a human and elf creating an offspring is something that most players can relate to (because elves are – you know – hot), while a human and an orc creating offspring is strange at best (because orcs are vile, evil and ugly) or more likely violent. I actually think that to most people (in real life, that is), the thought of sexual assault is more “evil/wrong” than attacking and killing a bunch of monsters and taking their stuff. I don’t think WoTC has any prejudice against 'interracial sexuality' as such.

IMO it’s pretty silly, but on the other hand, I won’t miss the half-orc much, while half-elves are too iconic for D&D to be removed.

 

[Zweischneid]

Don’t you think that it’s because that a human and elf creating an offspring is something that most players can relate to (because elves are – you know – hot), while a human and an orc creating offspring is strange at best (because orcs are vile, evil and ugly) or more likely violent. I actually think that to most people (in real life, that is), the thought of sexual assault is more “evil/wrong” than attacking and killing a bunch of monsters and taking their stuff. I don’t think WoTC has any prejudice against 'interracial sexuality' as such.

IMO it’s pretty silly, but on the other hand, I won’t miss the half-orc much, while half-elves are too iconic for D&D to be removed.

Well, could turn it the other way as well. Maybe Elves are more prone to get raped because they are - you know - hot, while love between humans and orcs takes a "see behind the exterior, beauty-and-the-beast" kind of story.

Also, skewering, say a slim dark-elf priestess with sharp and not-so sharp metal objects, burning, freezing and throwing acid on her is less evil than forced sexual assault?

Sexual assault is vile, no doubt about it, but the evil implied by subjecting people to severe burns (fireball), acid attacks (Melfs Acid Arrow ) or knife attacks is certainly on par with that, or not?

 

[MonkeeGalore]

Well, could turn it the other way as well. Maybe Elves are more prone to get raped because they are - you know - hot, while love between humans and orcs takes a "see behind the exterior, beauty-and-the-beast" kind of story.

Good point – I think I’ll need to include such a “forbidden love story” in my next campaign

Might be a bit off topic, but I actually do think that to a lot of people the thought of rape (a fate worse that death) is much worse/evil/vile/etc. than murder on some sort of imagined scale of evilness.

 

[Zweischneid]

Good point – I think I’ll need to include such a “forbidden love story” in my next campaign

Might be a bit off topic, but I actually do think that to a lot of people the thought of rape (a fate worse that death) is much worse/evil/vile/etc. than murder on some sort of imagined scale of evilness.

Maybe, but than again.. rape is at most "implied", vaguely in the background of some characters if they choose to play half-races, while greed-driven murder & mayhem are the bread and butter of each and every gaming session of D&D.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Lets let the conversations about sexual violence and origin of races drop, before it wanders into territory that it shouldn't.

Thanks

 

[Dausuul]

*deleted after seeing mod post*

 

[glass]

-What Dausuul said-

glass.

 

[Engilbrand]

She's currently playing a dark and mysterious Star Pact Warlock. She looks forward to playing a lighter Fey Warlock. Dark and mysterious doesn't sound like "OMGEVILOLZ!" to me. Lighter can go two ways: Either the Fey are the good Pact makers, or it's a lot less Emo to bind with them.