06-06-2019, 12:29 AM | #11 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
I didn't mean to say you shouldn't do it, just that I think explaining it with magic rather than genetics would be better.
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06-06-2019, 10:11 AM | #12 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
But this idea abandons the idea of consistency entirely. Stuff just happens.
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06-06-2019, 12:25 PM | #13 | |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
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Any setting with "The science of magic" types running around is a setting whose magical framework is internally consistent. It has to be; otherwise, the idea that "This specific magic formulae produces this specific magic effect" couldn't exist.
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06-06-2019, 12:54 PM | #14 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
Not really. Something can have an internal logic whether or not anyone studies it, and while often the purpose of studying something is to learn to manipulate it, that isn't required.
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06-06-2019, 02:53 PM | #15 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
Fair. For maximum semantic accuracy, it should probably read "Can Wizards exist", not "Do wizards exist".
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06-06-2019, 03:16 PM | #16 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
The fact that something can be understood does not mean it can be manipulated.
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06-06-2019, 07:31 PM | #17 | |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
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06-07-2019, 01:34 PM | #18 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
@MDL: that assumption is one of the core things to happen in Shadowrun's backstory. Not at the rates you picked.
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06-07-2019, 01:39 PM | #19 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
Realistically if Elves and Dwarves are just different ethnicities of human they wouldn't "breed true" If residents of Dwarflandia and Elvistan shared a forbidden love they would have an offspring that was the medium of their genetic traits rather than purely one or somehow a mix of any other ethnicity. They could look very much like a dwarf but perhaps they'd be more gaunt with soft golden hair and an aptitude for magic.
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06-07-2019, 04:39 PM | #20 |
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Re: What if Fantasy Races weren't "Races"?
One thing I would expect if people had only a one in four chance of breeding true would be stressed families. Assume the possibilities are Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Gnome, Troll, or Ork. And that these beings fit typical RPG treatments of these beings. A Gnome or Halfling couple raising a Troll child, that would tower above them and have a tendency toward a short temper and attention span, might have to neglect their other children, if they can have the time and energy to have more children, to care for the Troll.
Picture an Elf couple with an Elf child and a Human child. Not only is the Human kid likely to feel neglected, but he'll die of old age before his parents even seem to age. On the Elf side, the family will be aware of the emotional wounds of their Human child. Feel the misery of never fully conecting with their child slash sibling. Then the child will die in what for an Elf would be early adolescence.
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