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Why does no one play Goliath?
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<blockquote data-quote="SmokingSkull" data-source="post: 6844147" data-attributes="member: 6791384"><p>Goliaths are barbarians who live on the fringes, living in a merit based society as they hunt and wander. Competition is important to them because being able to prove you can survive and overcome challenge means the clan will live to see another day. However the dark side of this is for some, they must keep pushing themselves beyond their previous best. To the point of being crippled, dead or worse. Many clans do not have the wisdom of age they so desperately need due to this drive to outdo themselves, and losing potential leaders as a result.</p><p></p><p>Every day is absolute for them: if they want to eat they have to go out and find it, they want to be warm they have to make shelter or find it. They're very self sufficient, and their natural might makes them arguably the strongest of all playable races at least from a narrative point of view. They also do not care for politics, the concept is alien to them. To them the one most qualified and proven should lead, they openly mock incompetent leaders especially those who didn't earn it (a.k.a. inherited it, birthright etc.) One other unique thing about them, they have no gender roles besides maybe the Den Mother and even then they serve a specific function that males cannot.</p><p></p><p>All in all I like playing Goliaths because they're big people trying to fit into a small world. Their connections to giants oft makes them the target of people's fear, uncertainty and sometimes anger. They are isolationist in attitude so they often seem aloof and distant, however they do everything big. Laugh, love, fight, drink etc, if I had to pin down their mentality it's go big or go home. Can't really say that of either half orcs or dwarves for they have their own issues to contend with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SmokingSkull, post: 6844147, member: 6791384"] Goliaths are barbarians who live on the fringes, living in a merit based society as they hunt and wander. Competition is important to them because being able to prove you can survive and overcome challenge means the clan will live to see another day. However the dark side of this is for some, they must keep pushing themselves beyond their previous best. To the point of being crippled, dead or worse. Many clans do not have the wisdom of age they so desperately need due to this drive to outdo themselves, and losing potential leaders as a result. Every day is absolute for them: if they want to eat they have to go out and find it, they want to be warm they have to make shelter or find it. They're very self sufficient, and their natural might makes them arguably the strongest of all playable races at least from a narrative point of view. They also do not care for politics, the concept is alien to them. To them the one most qualified and proven should lead, they openly mock incompetent leaders especially those who didn't earn it (a.k.a. inherited it, birthright etc.) One other unique thing about them, they have no gender roles besides maybe the Den Mother and even then they serve a specific function that males cannot. All in all I like playing Goliaths because they're big people trying to fit into a small world. Their connections to giants oft makes them the target of people's fear, uncertainty and sometimes anger. They are isolationist in attitude so they often seem aloof and distant, however they do everything big. Laugh, love, fight, drink etc, if I had to pin down their mentality it's go big or go home. Can't really say that of either half orcs or dwarves for they have their own issues to contend with. [/QUOTE]
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