From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject:	Races (was: No subject)
Date:	Tue Mar 26 14:45:01 2002

> Obviously a lot of
> > people just envision their characters as human or don't want to have
to
> > deal with being a dwarf or whatever which is how things tend to work
out
> > with my group anyway. But the rules basically say "you can be a
dwarf
> or
> > ork for free and have more attribute points!".
Also the other inherent problem that my group has pointed out is that
they treat dwarves as what a dwarf is to us today and not what it's
supposed to be in a fantasy mixed RPG, dwarves are supposed to be what's
essentially listed as them being in the dwarves book for AD&D 2nd
edition...they're not just regular people, they're grumpy, pissed off,
MEN, they're all men whether they're a woman or not....they're all more
than capable of handling any of the troubles that come across them in a
regular day. The best way to put it is to envision a 6'8" 245lb, built
for whomping tail Scotsman and then squish him down into a sub-5 foot
frame. That's what we all agree a SR dwarf should be, especially cause
he'd be sick of people treating him like he IS a modern day dwarf.....