R&C Spotlight Interview with Michelle Carter

[Irda Ranger]

Tiefling cultural design aesthetic is apparently inmspired by flames---just like the dwarven weapons shown earlier were all straight edges and severe angles.

I like this conceit, I think it reinforces cultural identity, and I sure as hell don't care about whether these weapons would function in the 'real world'.

I get the "design conceit". I like it, in fact. I think its very important for cultures to have stylistic differences. But have you ever noticed that all major cultures in the world developed swords that look strikingly similar? Or that spears work the same way the world over? There's a reason for that.

 

[GVDammerung]

. . . Unless you want to worry about the implied origins of the owlbear....

"I don't care who you are; THAT'S funny!"

 

[Drkfathr1]

As for the missing Half-Orc...anyone else think we might eventually see them turn up as a seperate sub-race of Orc?

Something more Tolkienesque? A magical union of Orc and Man, or maybe Orc and something else? Sort of a "High Orc"?

 

[The Ubbergeek]

As for the missing Half-Orc...anyone else think we might eventually see them turn up as a seperate sub-race of Orc?

Something more Tolkienesque? A magical union of Orc and Man, or maybe Orc and something else? Sort of a "High Orc"?

Maybe an half-something template?

 

[xechnao]

So dragonborn are a meaningful addition, that is the lizardman one.
But what are tieflings for? Are they supposed to be the goths or is it something else?

 

[Wormwood]

But have you ever noticed that all major cultures in the world developed swords that look strikingly similar? Or that spears work the same way the world over? There's a reason for that.

If swords are "strikingly similar" because they all have blades longer than their handles, then you may have a point. But history is littered with a staggering amount of variation within that broad (and arbitrary) theme.

4e swords may look alien, but I'll bet you even money that they've got long blades, short handles, and you stick the sharp end in the other guy.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

So dragonborn are a meaningful addition, that is the lizardman one.
But what are tieflings for? Are they supposed to be the goths or is it something else?

Gee, I wish peoples would stop stereotyping the goths as decadant devilers or emo whimps....


They represent the ones who dealed with the devils, and often quite litteraly. The corruption of power.

Things like the Elric books's Melniboreans and all that.

 

[Oldtimer]

But what are tieflings for? Are they supposed to be the goths or is it something else?

Tieflings are the new drow.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

But what are tieflings for? Are they supposed to be the goths or is it something else?

 

[Stogoe]

I like this conceit, I think it reinforces cultural identity, and I sure as hell don't care about whether these weapons would function in the 'real world'.

I agree with this. Repeat after me, people: Fantasy. Game. I care not one whit for 'practical'-looking weapons; give me designs that stoke the fires of my imagination.

And I love the new tiefling. It is all sorts of 125% amazing. I want to see more pics of the dragonborn, but they look neat so far.