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Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?
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<blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9468321" data-attributes="member: 7029930"><p>No, I'm happy to admit errors actually I do that all the time.</p><p>I made one earlier in the thread in my discussion with [USER=7034710]@CreamCloud0[/USER] - we discussed the better word for relatable would perhaps be familiarity in certain instances I believe. I'm still muddling through that.</p><p></p><p>I'm not running in circles.</p><p>The movies I mentioned are all Western with Western touchstones.</p><p></p><p>Dorothy is not the only human in The Wizard of Oz</p><p>Batman is not the only human in on the JLA</p><p>Jake Sully is not the only human in Avatar.</p><p></p><p>Everyone is human in The Last Samurai (except the horses who refuse to die under machine gun fire, similar to the cops in Bale's last Batman movie). So obviously the touchstone in that movie is not about who is human and who isn't human, but who is Western and who isn't.</p><p>To a Western audience the role of Tom Cruise is the touchstone.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Which is why it is so odd to me with so many movies and series which have these touchstones in their stories in order for their audiences relate to a character or set of characters, you somehow refuse to accept that within D&D. What makes D&D so different do you think (for you)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnotherGuy, post: 9468321, member: 7029930"] No, I'm happy to admit errors actually I do that all the time. I made one earlier in the thread in my discussion with [USER=7034710]@CreamCloud0[/USER] - we discussed the better word for relatable would perhaps be familiarity in certain instances I believe. I'm still muddling through that. I'm not running in circles. The movies I mentioned are all Western with Western touchstones. Dorothy is not the only human in The Wizard of Oz Batman is not the only human in on the JLA Jake Sully is not the only human in Avatar. Everyone is human in The Last Samurai (except the horses who refuse to die under machine gun fire, similar to the cops in Bale's last Batman movie). So obviously the touchstone in that movie is not about who is human and who isn't human, but who is Western and who isn't. To a Western audience the role of Tom Cruise is the touchstone. EDIT: Which is why it is so odd to me with so many movies and series which have these touchstones in their stories in order for their audiences relate to a character or set of characters, you somehow refuse to accept that within D&D. What makes D&D so different do you think (for you)? [/QUOTE]
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