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2007-10-27, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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gameworld racist insults
First a disclaimer..this is about GAME racism. I was trying to think of things that each race would call others as a way of insulting them. Here are a few, feel free to add as you see fit
Elves = twigs, find them in the forest and they snap sooo easily, burn well too
Dwarves = furfaces, furballs, flea catchers, flea traps,
Halflings = Shorties, bugs, (because you can step on them)
Kolbolds or other reptilian races call humaniods smoothskins, or scaleless
Orcs call others toothless or tuskless
and its so much fun as a DM to tell a player running the elf that the orcish insult he heard translates to "hey twig your mommas does flea catchers"
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2007-10-27, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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First a disclaimer..this is about GAME racism. I was trying to think of things that each race would call others as a way of insulting them. Here are a few, feel free to add as you see fit
Elves = Point-ears, treehuggers ... ask them if they ever eat anything ... deliberately call male elves "she" ...
Dwarves = Stunties, tubby ... deliberately call female dwarves "he" ...
Halflings = Kid, child, little girl, little boy, little one ...
Humans = Monkeys
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2007-10-27, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-27, 09:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, I'm good at this. Lemme see...
Troglodytes (might get called)- Newts, Stink-scales, toad-eater
(might call others) - Hotblooded, hairy
Gnomes - Lawn Ornaments (also works for dwarfs in some cases), Sparkies (for their spell-like abilities), Leprechauns, Miniatures etc. (of course, they usually wouldn't take offense)
Fey - Insects
Half-Orc - Half-Breed or Half-Blood (obvious), Thug, Beastmen, Halfmen
Elf - Effeminate, Pixies, High-heads (for their habit of being arrogant), Ears
Dwarf - Midget, Statue, Stone Man, Half Man, Beards
Orc - Teeth, Beast, Quarterwit, Grunt, Boarface
Gnoll - "Good Dog", Pup, Cub, "Go Fetch", etc.Subtlety is the art of changing something just enough
that people notice the difference,
without noticing the change.
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2007-10-27, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've been thinking about possible insults for humans....
And after a while I've noticed something. In D&D, it's pretty goddang impossible to throw them a good insult.
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2007-10-27, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Mayfly", maybe? Humans live the shortest except for Orcs.
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2007-10-27, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warg Chow?
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2007-10-27, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Humans need something to mock their tendency to 'adopt' the cultures of other races. Clone or Mimic might work. (other race) Wannabe could hurt.
Other races could call them dull-ears/eyes/whatever in comparison to themselves (thinking elves mostly, here).
Sun-lovers or nightblind might be appropriate coming from creatures with low-light or darkvision.Subtlety is the art of changing something just enough
that people notice the difference,
without noticing the change.
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2007-10-27, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actually, 'halfling' IS an insult. It implies they are half a man or something.
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2007-10-27, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Halflings-Ammo
Humans-Rabbits
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2007-10-27, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Halfling/Gnome: 2-Foot Wonder; "Your Lowness"
True Dragon: Psudodragon
Dwarf: Beardy McBeerstein
Just a few I've heard of/used.
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2007-10-27, 11:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Although I don't condone cursing, this is really a more realistic gameworld insult than most examples I've seen.
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2007-10-27, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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How about the fact that humans can apparently breed with anything on two legs (or even four legs if you count dragons).
Human: Hey elf, you look like a girl.
Elf: To a human, everything must look like a girl.
Human: What?
Elf: Half-orcs, half-ogres...
Human: ... shut up.
Dwarf: Half-dragons, half-kobolds.
Human: I said shut up!
Elf: ...
Dwarf: ...
Human: ...
Elf: Centaurs.
small races might call the medium sized ones giants.
Halfling child: Daddy, daddy! I saw a bunch of bid ugly monsters and they were talking really loud, and shaking the ground with their big stupid feet!
Father halfling: Oh don't worry son, those are just humans.
Halfling child: There are green humans?
Father halfling: Green? They might be orcs... they're kind of like humans but... you know, more so.
Gnomes call halflings 'shoeless yokels' while halflings call gnomes 'freaks'.
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2007-10-27, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Human - kid, blank (because of the versitality thing), rock (bland), raceslut (every half-whatever is half-human for a reason...)
Drow - spider monkey, spider kisser, coalskin, bleachy (because of the white hair), half-man (for the males)
Duergar - greymeat, dirtbeard
Tiefling - demey/ demette, horngirl/ hornboy, rattail
Aasimar - shinypants, angelface, prettyboy
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2007-10-27, 11:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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this is probably relevant to your interests
that being said, i have nothing more to contribute other than calling aasimars altar boys.
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2007-10-27, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-27, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-27, 11:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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orc or any form of orc blood: Pig, pig nose, pig face, runt, mutt, dog
Elf: tree-lover, nature boy
dwarf: stunted one
Gnome: Hin, half-man
Hin: Gnome, half-man, it
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2007-10-27, 11:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-28, 01:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Elves (and maybe Half-Elves) could be called "long-ears."
Humans can be called "Round-ears" by elves.
Tieflings can be called "Goat-girl/boy" (NWN2), fiendling, brimstone breath, or simply fiends. Depends on whether they're proud of their fiendish ancestry or not, though.
Halfling -- "little boy" or "little girl." Might work for gnomes too.
Aasimar -- "glitter"
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2007-10-28, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also, refer to an elf's ears as earspikes, always. They hate that.
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2007-10-28, 05:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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In WFRP, the Dwarvish words for different races can also be used to describe buildings:
Human= Umgi ("manling")
Umgak= "shoddy, likely to fall down"
Elf= Elgi
Elgak= "flimsy"
Also, "fit for goblins" means unspeakably bad. "Not fit for goblins" means even worse!Catapultam habeo. Nisi omniam pecuniam mihi dabis, saxum immanem ad caput tuum mittam.
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2007-10-28, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-28, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-10-28, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Gnomes = big nose (they do have a good sense of smell, and I know in some worlds they do indeed have noses that are correspondingly large), penny-pinchers (if involved in banking), badgers (for affinities with burrowing mammals)
Dwarves = fat gnome, giant gnome (dwarves don't take well to being "accidentally" confused with or associated with other races), drunk Ulf (or substitute another common dwarven name in for Ulf)
Elves = pansie, tree-hugger (seconding Nowhere Girl on this one)
By the way, these suggestions are quite helpful, especially since I'm running a campaign where different races don't get along too well.
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2007-10-28, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wizards - Because we all know that they think they should be their own race - "Twinkletoes", "Flashbangs", "Pincushions"
Half-elves - "Half-breeds", "Shortears" (from elves)
Humans - "Pinkies"NaNoWriMo Beat Me
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2007-10-28, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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I always understood Dwarf and Halfling to be what their races name was in whatever the dominant human language of the region. There's no way those races call themselves that, probably something with lots of hard sylables and appostraphies for the Dwarves and I think the WofC write ups useually have halflings calling themselves Hin, or is that just Faerun?
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2007-10-28, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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