Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9472889" data-attributes="member: 42582">I hope you'll forgive me for interjecting my own thoughts.What you describe doesn't seem to me like racial mechanics. Those ideas could just as easily be applied, say, to a person from City X or County Y encountering a fellow of theirs abroad; or someone who is fluent in such-and-such a regional dialect or obscure field of knowledge brining that to bear on a present situation; etc.To be clear: I'm not saying that your ideas/examples are bad ones. On the contrary, they seem like good ones! But to me they seem like an alternative to racial mechanics, not an example of such mechanics. I mean, on your approach we could replace the whole Elf (or Dwarf, or . . .) entry with a simple descriptor (Elf, Dwarf, . . .) together with a few sentences of description (Elves typically live in their wooded kingdoms or the fastnesses hidden in the deep river valleys . . .). It would move at least that aspect of the game to a much greater focus on the fiction, and the PC's fictional position, and what that suggests for how things might play out in the game.</blockquote>