On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote: > This raises a point I've often had trouble with, > > Trouble not mechanically but ethically [so to speak], with racial > appearance. > > If I come from a mixed sapient world where giant insects are food animals, > speaking Dragons are the enemy, and Mr Mhrhrg the Minotaur delivers the > milk; is a beast headed man going to be perceived to be Horrible, or just > foreign? > > Would "Unnatural Appearance" or "Non-Human" be better descriptors? >
Effectivly it comes down to "What reaction modifers do i have with whom?". If non human races are so common (or even if stories about them are so common, that their existence is widely accepted) then you don't really get a reaction modifer for not looking human. You might still have a social stigma (or propably an equivalent advantage if reactions are net positive). An apearence within the uncanny vally of a relevant race could still give a disad though. And if you have a feature that makes you easy to spot in a crowd or easier to track you, in some campains would still warrant a disad. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
