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I'm going to embark on a trip through as many Blades scenarios with my all-Nephilim group. I hope giving ALL of them decent bow skill won't totally gimp other important skills (like Mage Spells levels, especially). Perhaps the bonus dexterity will keep my mage-philim alive for a bit longer! =)

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I played Mad Ambition as a slith as the lead character, and didn't change the graphic. That was interesting...

Whatever other faults it has, Babysitting at least adjusts the sister's race according to the race of the lead character.

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Well for playing human-only or human-oriented scenarios.... My nephilim will go under... DISGUISE!!! .> = {)}>

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Whatever other faults it has, Babysitting at least adjusts the sister's race according to the race of the lead character.
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The notion of a slithzerikai existing on the surface before the settlement of Valorim is absurd. The notion of a nephil surviving in Imperial captivity is even worse.

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True, but ignoring the time period is easier than trying to figure out why and how a slith can have a human for a sister.

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How can you ignore the time period when the scenario takes place in a crucial portion of Imperial history? That's like saying that Schindler's List could have taken place during the Civil Rights Movement. (Furthermore, no sliths or nephils have been rich on the surface ever. That'd be like making the slave-owner in Roots an african-american.)

The scenario explicitly states that it is for humans only, and that the user can change the graphics if s/he so chooses. "You take your sister shopping" isn't a scenario that demands a certain race. "You are soldiers sent out to subdue a race rebelling against your oppression" is.

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I think that's Dikiyoba's point. I think he was trying to indicate that Babysitting allowing the party to be any race is good, not that Mad Ambition not doing so is bad.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

True, but ignoring the time period is easier than trying to figure out why and how a slith can have a human for a sister.
Dude, this statement ain't particularly ambiguous.

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Go back to your cave, Prometheus. :P There were actually a few scattered slave and plantation owners of African descent, but these dudes usually cropped up pre-19th century. That is, before slavery in the USA became REALLY race-based. Look it up.

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Um, I think I read this statement of TM's wrong:

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The notion of a slithzerikai existing on the surface before the settlement of Valorim is absurd. The notion of a nephil surviving in Imperial captivity is even worse.

For some reason, I assumed this statement was about Babysitting, not Mad Ambition (probably because he quoted a statement of mine about Babysitting in the same post and because I've only played both scenarios one time through). That assumption was the basis for this statement:

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True, but ignoring the time period is easier than trying to figure out why and how a slith can have a human for a sister.

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Originally written by Prometheus:

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Whatever other faults it has, Babysitting at least adjusts the sister's race according to the race of the lead character.
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The notion of a slithzerikai existing on the surface before the settlement of Valorim is absurd. The notion of a nephil surviving in Imperial captivity is even worse.

So? care to explain why it is so "crucial" that you play the right race? let him play as a Nephil if he wants! jezus Bok, are you his father or something?

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Go back to your cave, Prometheus. :P There were actually a few scattered slave and plantation owners of African descent, but these dudes usually cropped up pre-19th century. That is, before slavery in the USA became REALLY race-based. Look it up.
So what you're saying is, there were african slave-owners, but it was entirely irrelevant to race, making it entirely irrelevant to any literature about racism.

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Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen:

So? care to explain why it is so "crucial" that you play the right race? let him play as a Nephil if he wants! jezus Bok, are you his father or something?
You have not played the scenario.

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There were a few, yes. Like I said, look it up. Slavery really heated up in the 19th century as a racist institution. Before that it was much more of an economical situation that racism fueled.

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So in other words, there were black slave-owners, but it was entirely irrelevant to the situation at hand, which is racism.

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Slavery was prevelent in pre-colonial Africa. European merchants took advantage of this and purchased trade items (Africans) from other Africans. Seeing a good solid buyer, coastal African leaders began extracting as much of this resource as they could from the inner parts of Africa. This was not racist.

European conviction that non-Europeans were sub-human, and couldn't own property, created racism from slavery. They are definitely different things, although one begat the other.

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Well, I'm at least pretty sure that Salmon is losing.


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Okay, you're factually right, but what the hell bearing does that have on this discussion?
That's what I've been asking this whole fricking time.

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I'm going to embark on a trip through as many Blades scenarios with my all-Nephilim group. I hope giving ALL of them decent bow skill won't totally gimp other important skills (like Mage Spells levels, especially). Perhaps the bonus dexterity will keep my mage-philim alive for a bit longer! =)
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Slavery was prevelent in pre-colonial Africa. European merchants took advantage of this and purchased trade items (Africans) from other Africans. Seeing a good solid buyer, coastal African leaders began extracting as much of this resource as they could from the inner parts of Africa. This was not racist.

European conviction that non-Europeans were sub-human, and couldn't own property, created racism from slavery. They are definitely different things, although one begat the other.


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quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:

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Originally written by Semodius:

Go back to your cave, Prometheus. :P There were actually a few scattered slave and plantation owners of African descent, but these dudes usually cropped up pre-19th century. That is, before slavery in the USA became REALLY race-based. Look it up.
So what you're saying is, there were african slave-owners, but it was entirely irrelevant to race, making it entirely irrelevant to any literature about racism.

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Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen:

So? care to explain why it is so "crucial" that you play the right race? let him play as a Nephil if he wants! jezus Bok, are you his father or something?
You have not played the scenario.

Wrong. I have played it, and I know why it would be weird to play a nephil. Still, if he wants to play as a Nephil, I don't see why we should all jump on him and say that that is stupid, dumb or historically incorrect. Fort god sake, stop with the intelectual crap and simply play the game!

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Sorry about the slavery bit there, it just ticks me off when someone automatically equates it with racism.

Thralni? Deep breaths, simmah down. It isn't worth having an "intelectual crap" for you to enter a debate between a player and designer of a scenario.

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Well, I'm at least pretty sure that Salmon is losing.


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You see, I don't think it matters what race you play, as long as you enjoy the scenario. If you want to try something new, then just do it.

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Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen:

You see, I don't think it matters what race you play, as long as you enjoy the scenario. If you want to try something new, then just do it.
Most scenarios that I've played don't care about race, apart from Bahs ofcourse. And changing the picture doesn't really make a difference to the game - does it? It just reads the char's race, not their picture.

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quote:
Originally written by Archmagus Micael:

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Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen:

You see, I don't think it matters what race you play, as long as you enjoy the scenario. If you want to try something new, then just do it.
Most scenarios that I've played don't care about race, apart from Bahs ofcourse. And changing the picture doesn't really make a difference to the game - does it? It just reads the char's race, not their picture.

- Archmagus Micael

You have not played the scenario.

Mad Ambition does not check that the party is human; it assumes so and gives a warning at the beginning of the scenario that if you have any non-human characters, they will still be treated as human in the text of the game.

\/ To Thralni: my post was not directed at you. Not only would it not have made sense if directed at you (because it was already established that you have played the scenario), I could have simply quoted your original post rather than Micael's.

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No, I have played the scenario. Now stop saying I didn't play it, please.

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You know, most of these problems can be solved with a little imagination.

For instance, I started playing APF with a nephil singleton. Imagine my suprise when I'm attacked by a group of nephilim because they have never seen 'humans' before. Then, I justified it to myself. My nephil was actually a nephar, and I mentally replaced 'humans' with 'freak'. It's making the whole scenario more relevant: I'm one of the imperfections that need to be destroyed.

I haven't played MA yet. But I'm sure something similar could be found.

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