United States of Lizardia

[Ragitsu]

I saw the that humanoid troodons have racial Colorblindness. If this is the case, what major differences would exist in their society compared to ours?

[StevenH]

Mainly, signage and decoration will be very different, with an emphasis on contrast and pattern rather than color. To a human, their city streets would be very busy-looking.

But that's minor.

Human languages have a lot of color-based concepts. "I am green with envy" or "I am feeling blue". The troodons might have similar linguistic tropes: "I had a bad day, I am feeling so plaid!" While that is a rather silly example, it demonstrates that there will be some subtle differences in thought patterns. Thinking about how human thought uses color concepts in our societies is a good way to start.

I would think that other aspects of their biology (brain differences, worldview, exothermia) would have more of an effect on their culture than colorblindness. Typically, colorblind animals (and people) tend to have better contrast recognition and better night vision, both of which use the non-color bits of the eyes and visual cortex.

[Ragitsu]

I wonder what kind of art they'd have.

[mearrin69]

Oddly, I think the book says that their world is largely a carbon-copy of ours. Seems strange with color-blindness...you wonder why they'd have tri-color stoplights in Lizardia's America. The occasional color-blind person gets by in our society because there are also positional clues but if everybody was color-blind there'd be no good reason to have colored lights. Just one example, of course. So, you have to consider the possibility that USL is a nonsensical world, as opposed to a fairly rigorously self-consistent world like Centrum. No more outré than some of the myth parallels, perhaps.
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OT: Man, you post a really eclectic range of topics. Just sayin... :)

[Ragitsu]

Fashion, too, would be interesting. Their Vogue or People magazine for sure!

Originally Posted by mearrin69

OT: Man, you post a really eclectic range of topics. Just sayin... :)

Anything to get everyone's creative juices flowing.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by mearrin69

Oddly, I think the book says that their world is largely a carbon-copy of ours.

The more we hear about it, the less true that seems to be. Their technology turned out to be radically different. I now assume that their uncanny resemblance consists of their nations exactly matching our nations boundaries, with a similar governmental system in each nation. But I'm sure they don't have tri-colour traffic lights.

[Dangerious P. Cats]

Since the shade of a colour is more important than the colour itself patterns would often have colour combinations that would jar or clash to coloured seeing people. You could look at how colour blind people decorate their houses to get some ideas.

[mearrin69]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The more we hear about it, the less true that seems to be. Their technology turned out to be radically different. I now assume that their uncanny resemblance consists of their nations exactly matching our nations boundaries, with a similar governmental system in each nation. But I'm sure they don't have tri-colour traffic lights.

Ah, thanks for that clarification. I don't have any IW stuff beyond the campaign setting book. Is this stuff that has appeared in Pyramid?

It actually makes some sense that a scout might go there and come back with "They're just like us...but scaly" only to file secondary reports that slowly filter in all of the really quirky things that lie under the surface. Kind of hard to walk down the streets and look at traffic lights and such when you don't have a tail...or any other dino features.
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[Anders]

Originally Posted by mearrin69

Oddly, I think the book says that their world is largely a carbon-copy of ours. Seems strange with color-blindness...

Most lizards have excellent tri-chromatic and sometimes even tetra-chromatic vision. Color-blindness is largely confined to mammals.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Most lizards have excellent tri-chromatic and sometimes even tetra-chromatic vision. Color-blindness is largely confined to mammals.

The Neo-Troodon template from Infinite Worlds does give them Colorblindness, but perhaps it's not a good fit.