All the World's a Stage: Orcs and timelines in roleplay

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5-16-2011 @ 1:37PM

EidlonImp said...

Your specific examples are good, bit they're also very specific. The timeline suggestions paint characterization in broad strokes, hence the phrase "likely" to be a supporter of Thrall.

To revisit your earlier example, without any information beyond age, it might be very fair to say "anime 40 year old woman is likely to be a republican," though I have no idea what the actual American voter demographic information is. Gather more information, such as income, ethnicity, education, place of residence, and you will be able to use statistics to predict political leanings with greater accuracy, which is in a way what your examples did. Very specific information, contextualized, explains a political view.

There are orcs, even many level, in that age range, who might disagree with Thrall, or at least be ambivalent. but if it's fair to say that Thrall recieved a great deal of support from orcs of that generation then it is typical for level of that generation to be loyal to Thrall.

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