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roleplaying human races in rpgs

Theldaran

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Irish are always OP. But for my personal pick, I'd pick Israeli.
 

Theldaran

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You've got the Southron, who are blacks, and the Easterners, who are chinese.

Due to the turn of the millennium affairs, the Southron were depicted in the Decipher TCG a little bit... differently.

since you have pasted those cards and I know nothing about it, do they come with stats difference? Whats the meaningful choice when you choose them over other races

If you know about Magic or even Hearthstone, same shit. Each faction has a distinct way to be played. Like Southron with Mumakil (mammoths of the South) focus on brute force. Nazgul focus on winning by corrupting the ring-bearer etc. Uruk-hai play by dealing lots of wounds (called "bleeding" decks).
 

JarlFrank

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
How long before the "Orc lives matter" campaign starts in the ever increasing SJW part of the video game community?
"Orcs are treated just like Jews in the '30's and '40s".

Arcanum's Orcish worker rights party will become an actual reality in the real world.
 

Theldaran

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that principle changed and differences between colors are somehow blurry now.

Well I don't know... I don't play Magic anymore, but I know a lot of modern cards and I think they stick better to the spirit of each colour. What they call the "colour pie". In the old days you frequently found cards that probably were in the wrong colour. They tried to fix this by giving each colour certain favoured powers (white: life gain, control, a bit of removal, weenies; blue: countermagic, draw, etc; red: destruction, bolts, haste, chaos; black: discard, removal, slight control; green: fatties with few fliers, removal with creatures, power boosters, mana fixers, putting creatures into play from the deck). Cards that mean something new for the colour and have good power level are instantly coveted all around.
 

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are there any nonwhite humans in Tolkien books?

Negroes:
"out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues."
Of course for a modern simpleton this is "racism". But for someone who has never seen a black man before, or even suspected their existence (like the hobbits), big negroes in no or little armour charging probably reminded them of half-trolls.
 

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How long before the "Orc lives matter" campaign starts in the ever increasing SJW part of the video game community?
"Orcs are treated just like Jews in the '30's and '40s".

Arcanum's Orcish worker rights party will become an actual reality in the real world.

An Arcanum sequel satirizing modern movements like that and seeing the decline of Tarant's society into post-industrial decay and self=loathing would be hilarious.
 

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