09-20-2015, 08:49 AM
Can someone give me a refresher on how biologically lore-friendly we're going with the Avali this time around, if it's been discussed already?
Personally, for the sake of RP, I think making it so Avali need a bunch of special survival equipment to regulate their body temperature/stop water from contacting their skin/etc. compared to every other major species on "earthlike" worlds is a bit... bleh. I mean respiration equipment, sure, and maybe going to very hot places like deserts or volcanically active locations or... saunas, but a mildly-warm day being excruciatingly painful or stepping in a puddle being like walking in lava seems a bit... uh... yeah. Official lore is all for that stuff, but RPing it seemed to be such a nuisance that people probably just neglected to even mention their sometimes-bulky full-body survival gear or suits, etc. or only made passing references to it and mostly just ignored it even in situations where it would be a hindrance.
I propose, for this universe, which we've already established doesn't follow most of the various source materials' canons, the Avali be moved up (even if it wouldn't make sense biologically and chemically in our universe) to less bizzarely off-kilter survival requirements compared to what seems to be pretty much everyone else. After all, since a lot of people have non-Avali characters, and the difficulty of space travel, the majority of action will probably be taking place on generally-survivable worlds.
Personally, for the sake of RP, I think making it so Avali need a bunch of special survival equipment to regulate their body temperature/stop water from contacting their skin/etc. compared to every other major species on "earthlike" worlds is a bit... bleh. I mean respiration equipment, sure, and maybe going to very hot places like deserts or volcanically active locations or... saunas, but a mildly-warm day being excruciatingly painful or stepping in a puddle being like walking in lava seems a bit... uh... yeah. Official lore is all for that stuff, but RPing it seemed to be such a nuisance that people probably just neglected to even mention their sometimes-bulky full-body survival gear or suits, etc. or only made passing references to it and mostly just ignored it even in situations where it would be a hindrance.
I propose, for this universe, which we've already established doesn't follow most of the various source materials' canons, the Avali be moved up (even if it wouldn't make sense biologically and chemically in our universe) to less bizzarely off-kilter survival requirements compared to what seems to be pretty much everyone else. After all, since a lot of people have non-Avali characters, and the difficulty of space travel, the majority of action will probably be taking place on generally-survivable worlds.