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Re: Question on when to use Social Stigma vs Odious Racial Habit on Monster Races
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Do note that sometimes it makes sense for a technically racial template to provide an 'in-race' appearance, e.g. a genetically upgraded human with Attractive is attractive to humans (including to other upgrades, which are subsets of humans), but will not be noticed by a Vorlon. Quote:
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There is, of course, that impressive modifier which is explicitly cited to apply to a magnificent looking animal which might apply in some cases... |
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Re: Question on when to use Social Stigma vs Odious Racial Habit on Monster Races
Thank you everyone for your replies and thoughts. Thank you Kromm for the detailed clarification.
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On the other hand, Odious Racial Habit (Eats other Sapients) is reserved for sapient creatures who choose to eat other sapients. They may not be monsters but, for whatever reason, they think it is okay to eat sapient creatures. In this case, I think Tolkien esqu orcs that are sapient and choose to eat other sapients because they like to would have ORH (Eats other Sapients) [-15] and Social Stigma (Barbarian) [-10] for a total reaction penalty of -5 (meaning most civilized people will fight them or flee on sight). They are not "monsters" because they can choose rationally not to attack, but they are violent, untrustworthy, and destructive and therefore are regarded as "Barbarians" who are extra odious because they eat sapient beings. Does this interpretation seem to track with how ORH and SS are designed? Last edited by phayman53; 05-10-2018 at 04:14 PM. |
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