(04-12-2013, 02:37 PM)Grakor456 Wrote: [ -> ]There's no motive to discourage interracial romance or anything of the sort. Some folks seem to forget, but I have a human that's married to an orc. Believe me, I have no desire to discourage that type of RP entirely.
Rather, I value consistency in terms of what we let players do, to ensure a minimum of confusion. Similarly, I value keeping to CotH's mission and primary goal, which hasn't changed: staying as loyal to WoW's canon lore. Having a "split verdict" creates a number of problems in the long-term for both of these goals.
Your human traitor will be dealt with when the time comes, don't you worry one bit, Grakor.
Oh, I understand your concern. We allow the split, we get some enjoyment for awhile, people are happy, then some people want a halfbreed child or halfbreed character that we don't allow, and suddenly we're having another of these conversations. It will annoy you, it will annoy the GM team, and that slope, she be slippy. I understand where you come from, but I'm still sitting on the other side of the table with all the halfbreed babies.
Quote:1. As pointed out before, races that have known each other for a long time. Let's say human/dwarf. There's been plenty of time where they could have interbred, if it was possible. We allow kids to be made, but then someone wants to play an actual halfbreed of this combination. What do we say without looking hypocritical?
Well, you could say "rules are rules", but then someone gets upset, you get the image of a tyrannical dictator, and nobody is happy. You're a cool guy, I understand where you're coming from, and I don't consider you a dictator. Have the image of someone that wants to follow the lore to the letter at times, but you're open to trying new things, as shown by threads in the past where the community changed your mind. Gives you a plus.
So, how do we explain the freedom with NPC babies but limited PC half-breeds? Well, we can use the lack of a lore answer as an answer. If it happened, it was so rare that there was no point in writing it down. It was so rare, that it is very unlikely that you will be, say, a half-dwarf/half-gnome. What do I mean by rare? I don't mean it took one hundred tries for a gnome man to finally have a child with his dwarf wife, I mean that the gnome man was 99.99% more likely to go for his own race than a dwarf woman (they have beards, you know).
Quote:2. As pointed out before, we're taking guesses as to what is possible and what is not. While I don't terribly mind if we make some extrapolations, I do mind if we're making them solely for what equates to props.
Props that can be used to advance RP, bring a change to both the parents and the people they meet and the people that know the child, make enemies out of friends, and maybe getting a stone thrown at you by anyone that wants to be a jerk. I like props when they help advance a story or a character.
Quote:Also, half-breed kids were always disallowed. S'nothing new. Just there was confusion because of a joke I made a while ago, so I apologize for that, but it's always been against policy. These discussions are about if that policy should change.
When I joined the server, I thought the lore-recognized half-breeds were allowed since the RPG books were also used to answer most questions.
Not sure what joke you're talking about.
I would be a broken record if I parroted "I'm for NPC halfbreeds, not PC halfbreeds" once again, so there is no point to that, and you already know that I think the policy should change.