User:Downzorz/Tome of Steel/Socinomicon
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Socinomicon
Polite Combat
Description of the more subtle ways that organizations try to sabotage each other, and how these can be adventures.
They're Different! Or, Racism is Justified When Your Eyes Can Shoot Fire
Racism in real life exists over extremely significant differences- skin color, facial features, and other superficial aspects. In D&D, the same differences exist, writ EXTREMELY large. And in some cases, it reflects reality. Saying that Orcs are, in general, less intelligent than Humans is completely true. However, this gets extended to individuals, and that is when it breaks down. While Orcs might not be genetically predestined to be geniuses, there ARE Orcish scholars that are more intelligent than the average Human, or even most adventurers. But every specific Orc gets screwed by the reputation of all the rest of them. And that is just the races that live as an "underclass-" some races are excluded from society as a whole. At the Dungeonomicon touches on, Beholders can't get along at all, simply because they all can kill each other with their eyeballs.
When Adventurers Get Involved
Thoughts on how traditional adventurers can function in a city.
