Things you cannot skin:
- Centaurs
- Gnolls
- Taurens
- All other non-furred humanoids (with one exception, see below)
Things you can skin:
- Humanoid dragons
WTF? I always thought you couldn't skin the rest of them as Bliz didn't want the stigma of you killing and skinning sentient races. Despite the fact that there are several locations in Orgrimmar decorated with centaur skins. But then they go and let me skin both bipedal and quadrapedal (is that still the term even if they have another pair of arms above the legs?) humanoid dragons. I mean, these guys wear armor, have weapons, and cast spells. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I'll take their delicious scales and skins. But just sayin'.
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Umm... delicious? As in you *eat* them?
ReplyDeleteOkaaaay....
Anyhoo, restrictions like this are pretty much only there in case some butthurt asshole decides to "take issue" and find something to be offended over. This way, once the butthurt asshole lawyers up and sics the ACLU on Blizzard, they can just point to these arbitrary restrictions and show that they are "sensitive". Or whatever.
As a result, we, the people who actually play and understand the game, end up running across arbitrary restrictions that are unevenly and illogically applied. Such as this one. It's lame, but I find the fault lies more with our litigious society than Blizzard, really.
If I seem bitter, it's because I am. I *REALLY* liked having a werewolf for a hunter pet, and it was taken away a couple of days later SOLELY because of this type of PC bullcrap.
It's a *GAME*, people.
Also: It would be quadruped. We have two legs and two arms and we are bipeds. The numinous prefix that is attached to the "-ped" suffix only counts feet, not total appendages.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if one were to merely sever the spine of the quadrupedal humanoid dragon at... say.. the top of the back/based of the spine, rather than killing him outright... then the quadruped would turn into a sextaplegic.
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ReplyDeleteA drake is a teenage dragon, yes? Then how is it that the Bronze dragon gang (flight, whatever) willingly give their teens to us to carry us around...forever? Thinking of the CoS bronze drake here.
If they're supposed to be humanoids (I dislike dragons, they remind me of the most uber leet WoW players ever), why are we enslaving their young?
Won't somebody think of the children??!??!?
@Kim - I've actually had that thought as well. Not only can you earn a bronze teenager as a reward, you can *buy* a red.
ReplyDeleteIn my mind, I rationalize it something like this: they have really long lives, and they need life experience. So why not send them out with an adventurer to go see the world. When the adventurer dies, be it violently or from old age, come on home.
@Cosmo - Yes, delicious! *nom nom nom*
ReplyDeleteAlso, if this were Conan, you would definitely get to keep your worgen, and we would be able to skin tauren. But there is some price to playing the world's most popular MMO.
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