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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8086332" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>I think part of the issue is that there should be two very distinct kinds of "see in the dark" types.</p><p></p><p>There should be those who live on the surface but are likely primarily nocturnal and so can get around in low-light conditions and those who live underground or deep underwater where they just won't be any natural sun, moon or star light and yet manage to get around just fine.</p><p></p><p>But probably a big barrier to that is that one would have to rewrite a lot of what has been written about the Goblinoids, Orcs and so on and very clearly define what their natural habitat in the world actually is even if that makes old adventures make a bit less sense. Something that, I suppose, could be resolved if they simply had clearly distinct subterranean subraces.</p><p></p><p>Although I think subraces should just be done away with entirely and instead figure that these previous representations kind of represent the extremes of a race and the typical member of a race is probably somewhere on the spectrum between some of these subraces and not necessarily entirely defined by them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 8086332, member: 6777454"] I think part of the issue is that there should be two very distinct kinds of "see in the dark" types. There should be those who live on the surface but are likely primarily nocturnal and so can get around in low-light conditions and those who live underground or deep underwater where they just won't be any natural sun, moon or star light and yet manage to get around just fine. But probably a big barrier to that is that one would have to rewrite a lot of what has been written about the Goblinoids, Orcs and so on and very clearly define what their natural habitat in the world actually is even if that makes old adventures make a bit less sense. Something that, I suppose, could be resolved if they simply had clearly distinct subterranean subraces. Although I think subraces should just be done away with entirely and instead figure that these previous representations kind of represent the extremes of a race and the typical member of a race is probably somewhere on the spectrum between some of these subraces and not necessarily entirely defined by them. [/QUOTE]
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