The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pen N Popper on March 02, 2007, 10:53:52 AM
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I'd like to suggest that we, the community, come to an agreement on the attitude towards PCs of various races in the two towns Hempstead and Vehl. I do this so that:
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- Players of the races know what to expect.
- Players know that they have permission to react appropriately to these races.
- Players do not try to stick up for these races when others are trying to RP appropriately.
Vote for all you feel appropriate. I do make the assumption that Vehl is a rough and tumble type of place (wild west sort of town).
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Drats, the multi-vote checkbox got reset on preview. I'll recreate poll.
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The poll only lets you select one option, total, so you're not going to get good results there.
Given a "human" baseline reaction, I'd have to say that I'd expect:
* Half-giants, and to a slightly lesser degree, half-orcs are decently tolerated
* Half-ogres and maybe Wemics (just for unusualness) less tolerated than that
* Tieflings further down
* Orc, Goblin, and Drow generally unaccepted/hostile
If Fort Vehl... well, folks are a little less likely to pay too much notice. I still think and orc, goblin, or Drow will not receive a warm welcome, but the half-breeds and Tieflings might feel more at home.
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Half breeds should be more welcome in Vehl but thats about it - drow and the rest should still be left out.
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Pen, while I see the interest in doing this research, I thought this information is already outlined under the races thread? E.g. Tieflings are distrusted by all, half-giants are generally welcome in both societies, etc. I personally feel that this should be an entirely IC situation, unless certain races are banned from some cities (e.g. elves from bloody gate, just an example).
I will say that I'm a bit taken aback by this comment: Players do not try to stick up for these races when others are trying to RP appropriately.
I'm not certain if you are distinguising the players behind the character going OOC to say lay off, or the Character in front of the player defending/attacking the person in question. Please keep in mind that Players will IC defend those they have come to trust/respect/etc. I point this out because this comment almost feels as some sort of RP wall to erect during a pickfork and torch session.
To paraphrase an earlier post, we need to remember that there is a player behind the character who wants to have fun. Hopefully we can keep the 'hatred' to a civil rp manner. In some cases I've even gone so far as to politely inform players ahead of time, to clear the air, that my own character is particularly rude and xenophobic, just so they know/agree ahead of time that the interaction is all in good fun. This has always met with great results.