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Gunther:
Heh.  This has come up twice in the past couple weeks or so and I've never seen it before, so I thought I'd ask....

Dwarves seem to be detecting that Gunther is a halfgiant and responding accordingly.  I dont have a problem with their reaction, but how exactly are they supposedly so insightful?  The concept that they spend their lives fighting giants and can therefore automatically detect their blood, even diluted, doesnt seem practical.  I'll readily admist that I havent checked lore on dwarves (and I will do so asap), but I have a hard time imagining that such a thing is an automatic check.

I am adverse to PvP, but this is heading in that direction, and I'd as soon get some direction on this prior to it going that far.

Thanks

LynnJuniper:
Uh...does Gunther notice how big he is?

is going off of the looks the NWN game gives metagaming? Could you be considered just a really big guy?

So yeah! More questions for clarification!

Gunther:
Actually, under the halfgiant heading in the handbook, its states that halfgiants can be taken for human barbarians for their large stocky build.  Or something like that.  

Halfgiants are only 6'6 to 8'.  Admittedly, anyone 8' would really stand out, but humans have grown that big.  Perhaps due to acromegaly, or whatever that condition is, but nonetheless, not impossible.

I cant change Gunther's avatar, and wouldnt want to, but this does seem to border on metagaming.  Thanks for the word I was looking for.

I also find it ironic that for 1.5 years, nobody cared that Gunther was a halfgiant, then PvP came out and this issue has appeared.

MJZ:
I should think people could be a little more discreet about it - give your character suspicious, appraising looks, unless they have had many dealings with half-giants. A character of mine has thought a half-giant was simply a very large human, it depends a lot on the appearance and comportment of the half-giant in question, I'd say.

It shouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume that there is some giant blood in there for those in the know, but if every dwarf you come across is doing it... I'd agree that it's being excessive.

Interia_Discordius:
I'm not sure if it's as much as the PvP thing that came out that made people more racist against monstrous races, but moreso a recent discussion that questioned about how to treat them. That and, Port Hempstead themselves have made some decision not to treat them very kindly, or something like that...Could be influenced by that.

Although, characters who didn't care before who care now without a seemingly good reason is sort of strange :)

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