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<blockquote data-quote="Tervin" data-source="post: 4358671" data-attributes="member: 66491">Cannibal means eating your own kind. If halflings eat halflings they are cannibal. If lions eat lions they are cannibal. If either of them eat humans or elves or dwarves that doesn't make them cannibals.This is kind of at the core of what Dark Sun halflings are about, the way I look at it. They are wild, uncivilized, xenophobic and don't feel a connection to other sentient races. In their culture eating the raw meat of dangerous creatures is part of the diet, and probably also something you do in order to grow as a warrior. Eating human meat is to them like eating bear, wolf or tiger might be to some tribes in hour world. (Of course finding food on Athas is not that easy, so its creatures tend to be less picky with what they eat than in most other worlds.)Things like this made me fall in love with Dark Sun. And to get back on topic, I think there are many versions of popular creatures that have ended up being better monsters than the ones we commonly use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tervin, post: 4358671, member: 66491"] Cannibal means eating your own kind. If halflings eat halflings they are cannibal. If lions eat lions they are cannibal. If either of them eat humans or elves or dwarves that doesn't make them cannibals. This is kind of at the core of what Dark Sun halflings are about, the way I look at it. They are wild, uncivilized, xenophobic and don't feel a connection to other sentient races. In their culture eating the raw meat of dangerous creatures is part of the diet, and probably also something you do in order to grow as a warrior. Eating human meat is to them like eating bear, wolf or tiger might be to some tribes in hour world. (Of course finding food on Athas is not that easy, so its creatures tend to be less picky with what they eat than in most other worlds.) Things like this made me fall in love with Dark Sun. And to get back on topic, I think there are many versions of popular creatures that have ended up being better monsters than the ones we commonly use. [/QUOTE]

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