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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7570557" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Fair enough. I’ve never equated “sapient humanoid social species” with “humans with funny hats”, as many call it, and for my group, having humanoids who only <em>appear</em> sapient be a rare and chilling phenomenon is more interesting and engaging, but I totally get the other POV. </p><p></p><p>Also, for us, human murder-bandits are just as much fair game for slaughter as inhuman murder-beasts, while inhuman thieves or whatever are just as “off-limits” for mindless slaughter as human thieves or whatever. </p><p></p><p>In our last session, the pseudo-Prussian Eladrin airship captain/intelligence operative (Eldritch Knight) butchered the Goliaths slavers who were true believers, and we all agreed that they would return to their giantish masters and sell out the dwarf slaves we’d saved, and dumped their bodies in the harbor for the fish. My Gnomish rogue and my wife’s Goliath ranger insisted on giving them a second chance, but the Goliaths wouldn’t budge, and when it came to it, we weren’t going to endanger the dwarves for them. Sometimes things just ain’t clean. </p><p></p><p>But what’s fun for us, is when it’s just as hard a choice if the enemy is orcs or Gnolls or goblins. YMMV, of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7570557, member: 6704184"] Fair enough. I’ve never equated “sapient humanoid social species” with “humans with funny hats”, as many call it, and for my group, having humanoids who only [I]appear[/I] sapient be a rare and chilling phenomenon is more interesting and engaging, but I totally get the other POV. Also, for us, human murder-bandits are just as much fair game for slaughter as inhuman murder-beasts, while inhuman thieves or whatever are just as “off-limits” for mindless slaughter as human thieves or whatever. In our last session, the pseudo-Prussian Eladrin airship captain/intelligence operative (Eldritch Knight) butchered the Goliaths slavers who were true believers, and we all agreed that they would return to their giantish masters and sell out the dwarf slaves we’d saved, and dumped their bodies in the harbor for the fish. My Gnomish rogue and my wife’s Goliath ranger insisted on giving them a second chance, but the Goliaths wouldn’t budge, and when it came to it, we weren’t going to endanger the dwarves for them. Sometimes things just ain’t clean. But what’s fun for us, is when it’s just as hard a choice if the enemy is orcs or Gnolls or goblins. YMMV, of course. [/QUOTE]
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