[Rq-rules] Character Creation Rules

[Wayne Shaw]

At 07:39 AM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
>Hi
>
> > >stereotypical pattern. Nonhuman races should be ALIEN, and the problem
> > >with aliens is that they need to be rare - a "familiar alien" is a
> > >contradiction in terms.
> >
> > I think this is an overstatement, personally.  While there should be
> > enough differences in psychology to tell nonhumans from humans in
> > suits, creatures evolved in similar shapes and environments to
> > humans, and with not vastly divergent biology, should share far more
> > than they differ.
>
>Hmmm... The mere fact of having lifespans that embrace centuries should
>produce persons with a far different mindset to humans'.

Again, not convinced.  I suspect younger members of such species 
would be next to indistinguishable from younger members of others, 
and the older members would not be materially different, except in 
degree, from older humans.  Humanity now has lifespans in the 
developed world approaching 4-5 generations, and I expect that by the 
time you're reached that level you've already hit the worst of 
it.  Now it might have some differences in _society_ (because power 
tends to accrue toward the old, and the older one is, on the whole, 
the more conservative one is) but that shouldn't make a dramatic 
difference inherently in individual psychology.