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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffrey" data-source="post: 3262693" data-attributes="member: 764">It is clear that the view of non-humans that my group of old crusties and myself has is considerably different than the views of many in this thread.In my previous campaign, it wouldn't have been unusual for a dwarf to spend 20 years doing nothing but contemplating the weird beauty of a system of natural caves. An NPC dwarf can do that no problem, but for a PC dwarf it would be impossible: &quot;Hey, guys. My dwarf character is going to spend 20 campaign years alone in some caves, so he'll be back with the group in 2017.&quot; A PC dwarf has to pretty much act like all the other PCs: go on adventures in order to acquire experience points and treasures. The non-humans in my campaign world didn't do that. That sort of behavior was solely human behavior.Some in this thread have basically asked me, &quot;Why do you as Judge think you are qualified to role-play anything, but your players are qualified to role-play only humans?&quot; The above paragraph illustrates my answer. Any Judge can have his NPCs do incomprehensible (from a human point of view) things, such as having an elf NPC spend 300 years getting personally acquainted with each single flower in a mountain meadow. No player could possibly play a PC that way. If a player did in fact do that, it would be a de facto retirement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffrey, post: 3262693, member: 764"] It is clear that the view of non-humans that my group of old crusties and myself has is considerably different than the views of many in this thread. In my previous campaign, it wouldn't have been unusual for a dwarf to spend 20 years doing nothing but contemplating the weird beauty of a system of natural caves. An NPC dwarf can do that no problem, but for a PC dwarf it would be impossible: "Hey, guys. My dwarf character is going to spend 20 campaign years alone in some caves, so he'll be back with the group in 2017." A PC dwarf has to pretty much act like all the other PCs: go on adventures in order to acquire experience points and treasures. The non-humans in my campaign world didn't do that. That sort of behavior was solely human behavior. Some in this thread have basically asked me, "Why do you as Judge think you are qualified to role-play anything, but your players are qualified to role-play only humans?" The above paragraph illustrates my answer. Any Judge can have his NPCs do incomprehensible (from a human point of view) things, such as having an elf NPC spend 300 years getting personally acquainted with each single flower in a mountain meadow. No player could possibly play a PC that way. If a player did in fact do that, it would be a de facto retirement. [/QUOTE]

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