I was wondering how you all refer to groups of characters gathered in a common area? It feels weird to me to refer to them as "people," when it's not a group of humans, am I wrong? I'm probably still going to call the group "people," but I was just wondering if there were something more proper/accurate? I try to use other words like "citizens," "patrons," or "customers" in their appropriate settings, but there's not always an easy way classify them.
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Please, for the love of the gods, tell me how am I to balance DnD with the family and my son's travel hockey? HALP!
You walk into the building and immediately realize you're being stared at. Several sets of eyes belonging to tall broad dragonborn, shifty tieflings playing cards and a group of assorted dwarves. Their beards soaked with free flowing rums and meads.
there we go. a short description to mention the largest group present in the room. depending on area I might just refer to others as "aristocrats", "nobles".... but only after the PC's have visited the area enough to know what the population is roughly like.
I was wondering how you all refer to groups of characters gathered in a common area? It feels weird to me to refer to them as "people," when it's not a group of humans, am I wrong? I'm probably still going to call the group "people," but I was just wondering if there were something more proper/accurate? I try to use other words like "citizens," "patrons," or "customers" in their appropriate settings, but there's not always an easy way classify them.
“People” doesn’t mean “humans.” “Humans” means “humans,” “People” means “people.” Elves, and Orcs are people too.
there's many words that mean one thing in D&D and something completely different in the real word. Race is the headliner these days, but for 'people':
IRL: "human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest."
D&D 5E: I can't find an official definition, but if you look through both the D&D House Style Guide and the Forgotten Realms Style Guide, people refers to both an entire species (so race and people are synonyms in 5e {why they don't just use species is beyond me}) with 'peoples' being the plural; and its also used to refer to undefined individuals (e.g. 'people believe').
for a group, i'd just say 'people'. if you really need to further elaborate 'group of people with a mix of elves, dwarves and others'...something like that.
Yeah, I go with these often, but I still don't know why people doesn't feel right. I'll just use it more often until it does feel right lol. I think I just want my players to know it's a mixed bag of races, so going into the details suggested would definitely aid a better visual leading to better immersion. Thanks for the feedback.
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Please, for the love of the gods, tell me how am I to balance DnD with the family and my son's travel hockey? HALP!
Using people would probably be perfectly acceptable. While people is specifically human in the 1st definition, the second covers other groupings and leaves out human. Paul Anderson used the term sophont to be anyone in the universe that is a reasoning intelligent being. The way I have seen it used is on a more individualist basis rather than group-based thinking though.
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I was wondering how you all refer to groups of characters gathered in a common area? It feels weird to me to refer to them as "people," when it's not a group of humans, am I wrong? I'm probably still going to call the group "people," but I was just wondering if there were something more proper/accurate? I try to use other words like "citizens," "patrons," or "customers" in their appropriate settings, but there's not always an easy way classify them.
Please, for the love of the gods, tell me how am I to balance DnD with the family and my son's travel hockey? HALP!
You walk into the building and immediately realize you're being stared at. Several sets of eyes belonging to tall broad dragonborn, shifty tieflings playing cards and a group of assorted dwarves. Their beards soaked with free flowing rums and meads.
there we go. a short description to mention the largest group present in the room. depending on area I might just refer to others as "aristocrats", "nobles".... but only after the PC's have visited the area enough to know what the population is roughly like.
“People” doesn’t mean “humans.” “Humans” means “humans,” “People” means “people.” Elves, and Orcs are people too.
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there's many words that mean one thing in D&D and something completely different in the real word. Race is the headliner these days, but for 'people':
IRL: "human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest."
D&D 5E: I can't find an official definition, but if you look through both the D&D House Style Guide and the Forgotten Realms Style Guide, people refers to both an entire species (so race and people are synonyms in 5e {why they don't just use species is beyond me}) with 'peoples' being the plural; and its also used to refer to undefined individuals (e.g. 'people believe').
for a group, i'd just say 'people'. if you really need to further elaborate 'group of people with a mix of elves, dwarves and others'...something like that.
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Yeah, I go with these often, but I still don't know why people doesn't feel right. I'll just use it more often until it does feel right lol. I think I just want my players to know it's a mixed bag of races, so going into the details suggested would definitely aid a better visual leading to better immersion. Thanks for the feedback.
Please, for the love of the gods, tell me how am I to balance DnD with the family and my son's travel hockey? HALP!
Using people would probably be perfectly acceptable. While people is specifically human in the 1st definition, the second covers other groupings and leaves out human. Paul Anderson used the term sophont to be anyone in the universe that is a reasoning intelligent being. The way I have seen it used is on a more individualist basis rather than group-based thinking though.