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From: Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com
Subject: Elf/Dwarf Transforms, Part 2 (was RE: Breeder definition)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:04:57 EST
In a message dated 2/18/99 7:50:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, bxb121@***.edu
writes:

>
> Um, you find the fact that they list Elves and dwarves as UGE births,
> and Orks and Trolls as goblinization, but not that E's and D's WEREN'T
> also goblinized a lack of proof? Seems like you are simply reaching
> to try and prove your conclusion by saying no one has proven
> otherwise, despite tons of circumstantial evidence...

There might not be anywhere that says Elves and Dwarves didn't goblinize,
there is also no part that says Gargoyles didn't goblinize from hamsters.

OTOH, in teh novel (is it called IronHell or is that just the plotline?) the
lead dwarf is mentioned as goblinizing, when asked, everyone at FASA has said
(by everyone I mean Randall and DLOH) that this was a huge error, since
Dwarves do not goblinize. Just another error that slipped in because
shadowrunners don't proof the books for them. So it may not be in a rulebook,
but FASA has said it plenty of times.
(And of course novels are not canon, so the dwarf in there is no proof,
though you may not agree)

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