Thats not all though. the idea that we encourage people to be so thin skinned is getting out of control. that we coddle and encourage weakness instead of strength and not letting others get to us. Yes intentional and unintentional prejudice should be looked at but it too must not go too silly
There's definitely something to be said about having a glass jaw, and there comes a point where over-sensitivity becomes its own kind of prejudice. It comes with it the danger of condescension, quotas, and preferential treatment and no one should be treated differently from anyone else. This is certainly the case when one group is put down, as per my initial proposal of excluding small races, where I think a lot of the negative feedback is came from. I see that error in trading comments with those who thoughtfully engaged in the topic.
As per the silliness, a lot of silly things have been said on this thread.
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Over-sensitivity becomes used as a rhetorical trick: I am offended, you shut up!
Seen it again and again.
Sorry, in the ARG, it's the term fetchlings use for themselves. I find it a) cooler sounding, and b) less likely to be turned into feltching jokes. (google at own risk on that one.)@Mikaze: I'm thinking not of Hybrid Heritages. But normal Heritages.
I know a Girl who has a Green Tint to her skin.
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@Matthew Morris: What do you mean Kayal? Guess I am missing something. Or I failed my Cunning(Memory) Test...
Oh I do agree that it is a better name. I just never read to deep into them... I typically play Humans simply for the feel of being a Human in another world.
Oddly, I have a Fighter with Eldritch Heritage(Orc) and when he took it he gradually started to change in appearance until he had green skin, small tusks, and some other minor changes.
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Sorry, in the ARG, it's the term fetchlings use for themselves. I find it a) cooler sounding, and b) less likely to be turned into feltching jokes. (google at own risk on that one.)@Mikaze: I'm thinking not of Hybrid Heritages. But normal Heritages.
I know a Girl who has a Green Tint to her skin.
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@Matthew Morris: What do you mean Kayal? Guess I am missing something. Or I failed my Cunning(Memory) Test...
I've never had that problem with that race's name(I think they have a bigger risk of being mistaken for a race of private investigators that all look like a younger Chevy Chase by our group).
But that sure as hell is the reason why I've never dared use an Ethereal Filcher. :O
Player 1 : Oh ew!
Player 2 : Dude.
Player 3 : *sheepishly* ...I dunno... What does it look like?
GM:
Players 1-3 : AAAAAAAHHHH!
Why? Everyone I know who has ever played a gnome or halfling has done so for the "stats," or for the chance to be like Tasselhoof Burrfoot or Frodo or Bilbo.
Just started Season 2 of Game of Thrones. And kept picturing Dinklage as Conan.
In my campaign world the Talcani (the only race with the halfling subtype) came from another world, systematically dismantled feudalism, and control the dominate criminal organizations of the world (and no, not all of them are criminals). I'd probably NOT tell them that you think they are offensive.
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I think what Dinklage was talking about are the stereotypical roles that small people are usually handed.
There is a tendency for fantasy races to be flat characters with unidimensional personalities. What I don't like are the typical lazy fantasy worlds where you draw a map and throw the races at it like a Jackson Pollock painting. The dwarves go here. The dwarves are stout, dour, and like to mine things. The elves go here. The elves are beautiful, haughty, and wise. Halflings like to steal things, but prefer their comfy agrarian holes-in-the-ground with fine food .
But humans. Humans have many different cultures, languages, countries, personalities. They are treated as individuals.
I usually play halflings, but roleplay all my characters as unique individuals--so much so that DMs have gotten upset with me for not playing halflings "correctly".
In some eyes, all halflings are either Bilbo/Frodo or hyper-active children.
I say as long as a player halfling is more than a walking cliche, but a full-fledged character, then it's not what Dinklage meant.
I take offense to the idea that any PC needs to behave like a stereotype or is being played wrong.
Iirc, the word "hobbit" was invented by Tolkien (unlike elf, dwarf, orc, etc.) and thus couldn't be used because it was someone else's Intellectual Property.
Not exactly. While it was sometimes attributed to him, Tolkien never claimed to have invented the word, "Hobbit," just the concept of a race of people like the ones in his books. The word "hobbit" itself as referring to fairy creatures is much older and prior sources have been uncovered proving it.
Just started Season 2 of Game of Thrones. And kept picturing Dinklage as Conan.
You too?
So this is appropriate.
(Also the Nostalgia Critic tends to use foul languages, so, you know, warnings are given.)
(Also the Nostalgia Critic tends to use foul languages, so, you know, warnings are given.)
Wonderful save they misquoted my favorite line from Tyrion.