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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8706201" data-attributes="member: 6801228">This seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of my point. This is like saying that compared to a person with $100 someone with $1,000 and someone with $3.5 trillion are basically the same. No, more isn't just more. There are degrees of "more"Why is that a conflict? Dwarves aren't slaves who never do anything else but craft. They can take a break to talk to someone. Maybe they'd wait until they quenched the steel or something, which would see rude to a non-dwarf but a dwarf would totally get that. And most dwarves live with other dwarves, so they rarely have to learn about how non-dwarves would react. Of course, there is also the complete possibility of working and talking! Something that is 100% possible.Why is this a choice? Is something wrong with the old theater? Does it have to be now and not in a year or two, which for dwarves with hundreds of years of life isn't that long. What about halflings choosing between a new tavern or a new theater? What decision do they make?Well... first of all, social workers don't exist in DnD. I suppose they could, but most societies in DnD aren't advanced enough to have government employees whose job is to make sure other people are taken care of. The closest you tend to get is a priest. And, if we consider priests.... a dwarven priest is a blasksmith, so that's not even a choice. They are the same thing.But these aren't "people first" choices. Or if they are, they seem utterly contrived. Dwarves have theaters, and having theaters doesn't mean you can't have mines. They aren't in competition. Talking to your friends doesn't mean you can't also have important work you do. Social Workers don't even exist in DnD, its the clergy, and clergy people can do more than just social work.Why does caring about people mean you are ignoring technology or magic? Do you think Social Workers in our world cannot use technology? Of course they can. They in fact even develop technology for social work. Again, you make no sense to me. Nothing you are saying computes. Somehow halflings are the only ones who build theaters, because art and history isn't important to anyone else, but they also always stop to help a friend... which anyone else would do... and maybe they aren't perfect because economic growth is a thing, despite theaters being you know... economic and encouraging economic growth. And at the end of the day, it still comes back to the same insane idea. Halflings are just nicer than everyone else. They just care more about other people than everyone else. Which... is kind of a gross way to make them "unique" because again... morality isn't a racial trait. Being nice and kind and caring about other people isn't a racial trait.</blockquote>

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