[narf poit chez BOOM]

ok, i don't know what happened to my original post on this, i couldn't find it.

i have no objection to different races.

i do object to 'elves are good, orcs are evil'. elven culture might be good, in focussing on learning and peace, but like you said, that would be there culture.

i don't object to strengths and weaknesses.

i do object to 'elves are superior, orcs are inferior'. in other words, if elves are long-lived, gracefull and inheritly skilled at everything, it's because they spend a lot of time studying life-extension and body-manipulation magics, which would give them extensive weaknesses elsewhere - perhaps more than if they took a more balanced approach.

regarding humans, i do object to the 'humans are somehow superior and have no specific strengths and weaknesses' attitude.

I would tend to lean toward including non-human races. I would add that, as a matter of courtesy, one should only assign cultural traits to an NPC that negatively affect their own character.

huh? you mean, if your an elf, the npc is an elf, you shouldn't give all elves massive bow skills?

Besides, if we don't have other races, how am I going to include that half-orc, half-dwarf dragon-riding mage-warrior?

ok, everything but the dragon is fine.

how are you going to balance that?

i can see several ways an immortal society could be 'fragile': ambition or lack of drive, extended anxiety over all they've got to loose and/or major recklessness, boredom. basicaly, although everyone would have a lot of time to 'be all that they can be', they would also have a lot of time to 'be all they shouldn't be'. extremes.

[ July 09, 2003, 06:23: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]