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The argument is that the race of your character should be important decision. If it becomes something you can easily, or at all, change, then it becomes irrelevant and inevitably leads to cheapening racial roleplay.

I honestly can't say I disagree. Mostly just think novices (and everyone who has participated in the beta) should have the opportunity to say once, 'Actually, you know what, I think that race over there fits my character better."

Granted I've only taken a handful of philosophy classes, but my understanding is that postmodernism is a very broad range of approaches that deal with the nature of language and knowledge. Most famously, postmodern approaches deal with how language and imagery can be used to create and alter the meaning they are assumed to simply convey, and how that created meaning shapes the narratives that inform how we understand our material reality. To put that in today's terms, it is an attempt to understand how "alternative facts" shape our perceptions in this "post-truth" world, not an active endorsement of them.

Ironically, the term has since become politicized by people like Jordan Peterson, who have willfully misrepresented* the concept and crafted it into a derogatory word for any approach that questions or challenges the structures of power whose narratives, until recently, have dominated our discussions to the point of becoming taken for granted as an objective truth as opposed to messages that exist within a sociopolitical context.

* That or they legitimately do not understand it. Dude has a PhD though, so my bet is that it's willful.

That removes a really unique aspect of Deecherans and Deecheran culture. Adapt to the lore and embrace it instead of trying to adapt it to you. 

Wuff said:

I was mostly joking before when I said this, but...

There is nothing more postmodern than literally changing your species/race.

I disagree. Race is purely RP, and it is something that has been watered down elsewhere as something you can trade around like fashion. A single free reset if you didn't read beforehand in creation, sure, but not something you can just do whenever, even if bought with credits. 

Wuff said:

No offence, but I consider that a pretty selfish attitude. Someone later on might make a mistake and then seriously regret it later, and because they weren't in our beta period of free stat resets, free class resets, free race resets, they'd feel dissatisfied for a very long time. 

I've made this clear in the past, but I consider someone's personal enjoyment to be above most other things.

If someone really feels uncomfortable playing a race, or feels like another race would fit them better, let them swap. Do it once only, sure. Make it a considered decision. Let it happen though.

Let people decide to live as another race because they decide they like the culture a lot more. Make them have a mandatory culture tutorial. Whatever you want. It's not as if this is some bizarre impossible thing that's totally impossible due to the constraints of technology or something.

That's my piece.

Also, Gender Decheerans.

I respectfully disagree. I feel like race is one of those boundaries the admin put in (especially with no race changes) to be RP focused. The ability to swap has always been jarring in other IRE games and I LOVE that it's not a possibility in Starmourn. The solution is to read up before creating a character. Nothing wrong with trying out different combinations either. 

That being said, a one time race change during open beta would be fine. There was a rush to join on day one, some people didn't bother paying attention, I get that. Others paid no attention to their character's ages and discovered they were 15. lol. 

I'm also 110% behind the ability to switch genders, and I feel like Decheerans should be able to choose between it/its and they/their. 

Yep, there can be a happy medium here. Allow race resets until maybe level 15, and then you're locked in.

There's also an available RP reason for it, too: before level 15, your clones are free. And because it's free, HETE doesn't care as much if they put you in a proper body (yay capitalism!), hence race mismatches.

I'd support a one time change for beta, but I wouldn't want it to last forever or there to be more ways to get it. Let the people who rushed to make a character on day 1 make that choice again, after that leave it be and don't dilute the RP aspect of a persons race.