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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 9530980" data-attributes="member: 3192">D&amp;D originally is a game of unknown abilities. The players are given a body, not a personality, not an identity, but a creature they control. This creature has abilities, strengths and weaknesses, needs and desires, that are built into its design. That is, a designed game element. Many, if not most, of these abilities are unknown to the players. All rules and designs (builds) are hidden from them. This is the core conceit of the game.D&amp;D is now considered humanocentric because players were presumed to be able to guess all of the above for their character piece. D&amp;D defaults to Human because the players were presumed to all be human.Demi-humans were the ones which lost human abilities. Or this might be seen to be as gaining variations of unknown abilities and needs, et cetera, for everything else the game includes. These are also all unknown, but not easy to guess. However Demihumans gained a number of rather magical abilities to make up for these losses. But they weren't the default (or assumed game players) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 9530980, member: 3192"] D&D originally is a game of unknown abilities. The players are given a body, not a personality, not an identity, but a creature they control. This creature has abilities, strengths and weaknesses, needs and desires, that are built into its design. That is, a designed game element. Many, if not most, of these abilities are unknown to the players. All rules and designs (builds) are hidden from them. This is the core conceit of the game. D&D is now considered humanocentric because players were presumed to be able to guess all of the above for their character piece. D&D defaults to Human because the players were presumed to all be human. Demi-humans were the ones which lost human abilities. Or this might be seen to be as gaining variations of unknown abilities and needs, et cetera, for everything else the game includes. These are also all unknown, but not easy to guess. However Demihumans gained a number of rather magical abilities to make up for these losses. But they weren't the default (or assumed game players) ;) [/QUOTE]

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