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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5111555" data-attributes="member: 54846"><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>I'll use a food metaphor.</p><p></p><p>Let us say that I must eat chips for my entire life. I normally only have access to "Original" flavor chips. That's typically all I get to eat. Occasionlly though, I'll venture into a store that has a whole AISLE of chips. Tortilla chips, barbeque chips, sea salt chips! I'm overwhelmed and fascinated and scared by all these choices. </p><p></p><p>However, for 4 hours every two weeks, I pretend that I can eat <em>anything I want</em>. I could have chocolate or pizza or steak.</p><p></p><p>Why then, during this time where I get to pretend I can eat anything I want, would I pretend to eat chips?</p><p></p><p>In real life, humans are all I get. ANYTHING I wanted to do with regards to humans could be explored in my day to day life. <strong>My career involves studying humans</strong>. In a fantasy world, there are <em>so many radically different things</em> that sticking with humans, to me, is downright <strong>silly</strong>. I do not want to be anything like me when I get to play pretend.</p><p></p><p>Knowing what I know about human psychology and physiology, then, it seems even <em>more</em> exciting when I consider how another species may] operate on different fundamental things than what humans do. If you have a race where scent, or sound, is the primary sense (instead of sight being the most important), how does that effect their culture, their outlook, their behavior, their language? By taking ANY fact about humans and saying "What if it wasn't that way" and it opens so many interesting thoughts. Where they have different instincts, different <em>anything</em>, and how that effects roleplaying with your party members, or changing that area of the world! <strong>That</strong> is way, way cooler than anything I could ever do with humans.</p><p></p><p>So to me, a world where "everyone is special, no one is" isn't true. Because part of the fun is <em>exploring</em> what makes them special, and how that specialness effects everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum. The uniqueness of each group offers a foundation you build larger connections upon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5111555, member: 54846"] Yes. I'll use a food metaphor. Let us say that I must eat chips for my entire life. I normally only have access to "Original" flavor chips. That's typically all I get to eat. Occasionlly though, I'll venture into a store that has a whole AISLE of chips. Tortilla chips, barbeque chips, sea salt chips! I'm overwhelmed and fascinated and scared by all these choices. However, for 4 hours every two weeks, I pretend that I can eat [I]anything I want[/I]. I could have chocolate or pizza or steak. Why then, during this time where I get to pretend I can eat anything I want, would I pretend to eat chips? In real life, humans are all I get. ANYTHING I wanted to do with regards to humans could be explored in my day to day life. [B]My career involves studying humans[/B]. In a fantasy world, there are [I]so many radically different things[/I] that sticking with humans, to me, is downright [B]silly[/B]. I do not want to be anything like me when I get to play pretend. Knowing what I know about human psychology and physiology, then, it seems even [I]more[/I] exciting when I consider how another species may] operate on different fundamental things than what humans do. If you have a race where scent, or sound, is the primary sense (instead of sight being the most important), how does that effect their culture, their outlook, their behavior, their language? By taking ANY fact about humans and saying "What if it wasn't that way" and it opens so many interesting thoughts. Where they have different instincts, different [I]anything[/I], and how that effects roleplaying with your party members, or changing that area of the world! [B]That[/B] is way, way cooler than anything I could ever do with humans. So to me, a world where "everyone is special, no one is" isn't true. Because part of the fun is [i]exploring[/i] what makes them special, and how that specialness effects everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum. The uniqueness of each group offers a foundation you build larger connections upon. [/QUOTE]
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