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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azul" data-source="post: 1777002" data-attributes="member: 11779">In strict terms, cannibalism would be eating your own species.However, I suspect that almost all good, most neutral races and even many evil races would have a strong aversion to eating any species that physically resembles their form.  Civilized mammalian humanoids would consider eating other mammalian humanoids to be cannibalism and might possibly consider eating any humanoid shaped creature (e.g. humanoids, monstrous humanoids, giants, fey, some aberrations and outsiders) to be verboten.  Reptillian humanoids might only consider eating other reptillians to be cannibalism (e.g. a kobold might be disgusted at the idea of eating a lizardman or a troglodyte but be fine with elfsteak).  Survivalist type humanoids of neutral alignment, such as lizardfolk, might be less picky.Good aligned races and more philosophically inclined neutral races would probably have issues with eating the flesh of any sentient being.Very few races should make cannibalism a common behaviour, except as a form of extreme population control or as part of ritual behaviour.  Even evil races will prefer to hunt other races instead of their own.  Otherwise, they'll just kill their own race off.Using the "same creature type" is probably a good starting point if you feel you need a game mechanic to adjudicate this, but I would suggest using a roleplayed (i.e. fluff) approach to this cultural question rather than a mechanics (i.e. crunch) approach.  After all, the characters themselves don't stop and think in terms of "humanoid" versus "monstrous humanoid" versus "fey" when it comes to rough appearance (looks kind of human-like in form).My gut feeling would be to use sentience as a limit for more intelligent PCs of non-evil alignment (or evil but dignified, such as a drow).  A simple "if I can have a conversation with it or think it looks sexy, it's not morally ok to eat it" rule works for dumber PCs.  Survivalist neutral and Evil PCs might be more driven by personal survival.</blockquote>

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