tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post4599312833114031017..comments2024-03-28T03:39:41.417-07:00Comments on Beyond the Black Gate: Diversity Quotas and the Traditional Adventuring PartyAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682401446176099294noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-4454717740301628172019-10-04T00:55:12.778-07:002019-10-04T00:55:12.778-07:00Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a ...Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a life full of good, and amazing things. We are as human as you are.. It’s not what you are that counts, but how you choose to be. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Richvampirekindom@gmail.comJerome Samsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00886505335771600600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-85729799564177757102019-10-03T21:32:15.360-07:002019-10-03T21:32:15.360-07:00Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a ...Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a life full of good, and amazing things. We are as human as you are.. It’s not what you are that counts, but how you choose to be. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Richvampirekindom@gmail.comJerome Samsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00886505335771600600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-73658563430217498802019-02-13T03:46:28.701-08:002019-02-13T03:46:28.701-08:00Great Post Keep it up!!!
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Power to...Great Post Keep it up!!!<br /><a href="https://www.choicegenie.com" rel="nofollow">Power to Choose</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.choicegenie.com" rel="nofollow">Power to Choose</a>Compare Electric Rateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811260034015190682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-19013910325269082932013-08-09T17:05:01.116-07:002013-08-09T17:05:01.116-07:00I recently went back to the original rules, becaus...I recently went back to the original rules, because I'd had too many people insisting on being Dwarven clerics. They just seem wrong. I admit I prefer using an actual "real" world myth system to an invented one. (I'd also dropped multi-class in using 2nd ed Players Option rules.) I also stepped away from the idea of a "mixed" city. It's mostly humans with an elvish corner, a dwarf ghetto, and halflings are rare enough they get called lad. The more I consider Elves as a long lived race, the harder it is to justify most casual interaction. <br /><br />As for races of humans,I find myself usually using celtic myths and norse myths and drawing heavily on creating a Norman (Norse) Lord vs. Saxon (Celt) Peasant vibe. So I can mix in a class struggle. I added in a race of Henotheist traders, who dressed distinctly, followed a different magic path and were the occasional victims of riots (to be fair one of a dozen groups who get rioted against.) I'd thought I was making Phoenician beaker people, only to have someone say "oh Jews" the first time I trotted them out. I hadn't really made the connection.<br /><br />Truthfully, once you've read Mein Kampf or had a heavy dose of nazi ideology for a class or paper, Tolkien gets a little creepy with his men of Númenor and the inferior easterners. R. Howard's racism was pretty open, but Tolkien's subtle form just makes you feel a bit wrong for not noticing.<br /><br />I've avoided the black/white dynamic entirely, despite having had a mixture of races in cosmopolitan empires, more than a bit because I've only played D&D with one black person over the years and he'd made a few remarks about the only black guy in the manual being in a leopard skin. I also remember him being pretty happy when Conan the Destroyer came out and Wilt Chamberlin was in it. <br /><br />I wrote something on whetehr D&D is white game here, http://gortsfriend.blogspot.com/2013/08/is-d-white-game.html<br /><br />which is why I avoid it more often than not. <br /><br />They avoided it at TSR as well. Oriental Adventures was out by 1985, yet Al-Qadim didn't come out till 1992 for the black kid looking to play a Moor.Gort's Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08684913847135419951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-79407799372405725912013-08-08T09:20:56.424-07:002013-08-08T09:20:56.424-07:00Its cos-play. Its cos-play. JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-29719194748593958052013-08-08T05:40:10.325-07:002013-08-08T05:40:10.325-07:00He could have a field day: http://en.wikipedia.org...He could have a field day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_NegroAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01682401446176099294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-33384385978223897692013-08-07T10:29:11.356-07:002013-08-07T10:29:11.356-07:00...and if the GM doesn't do it, some thoughtle......and if the GM doesn't do it, some thoughtless min-maxer is likely to push it over the edge into really uncomfortable territory with his roleplaying.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13904797552624746980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-17677309393927052812013-08-07T10:27:18.920-07:002013-08-07T10:27:18.920-07:00In the hands of many GMs, cultural differences dev...In the hands of many GMs, cultural differences devolve way too easily into racist caricatures, especially when mechanical bonuses and penalties come into play. It's one thing to say non-humans all fall into certain stereotypes, but it feels very different when you're talking about humans.<br />I'm not necessarily going to call him a klansman if a GM tells me that all the dark-skinned humans in his world come from primitive warrior cultures and therefore get -1 to Int and +1 to Str, but it's certainly going to put me on guard.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13904797552624746980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-49595325015518040432013-08-06T13:31:06.329-07:002013-08-06T13:31:06.329-07:00If the GM isn't sleeping on the job, seeing in...If the GM isn't sleeping on the job, seeing in the dark is an enormous advantage that's really hard to pass up even for players who have absolutely no interest in min/maxing or otherwise gaming the system. Just having humans there seems to put the others' lives in jeopardy. I if I was an demihuman that would be my overriding consideration. The dwarf's speed is also a considerable drawback, however, leaving the elf and half elf. And yes, if the advantage wasn't there the temptation to play them would diminish in kind.Spooktalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09436639944558607691noreply@blogger.com