Are Cantrians human?

[Nick]

Cantrians have at least four arms, because they can hold a shield with one fire a bow with the other two, and they can also do other things at the same time.

Or they can hover and use their feet at the same time.

[Augery]

That would explain why they can travel so far and not get tired. Also why they can punch Hawks.

[Doug R.]

Doing things at the same time does not necessarily indicate more than 2 arms. First of all, with the shield example, there is nothing indicating that they are holding it at all times. It could be slung on the back and used just for defense when needed. Second, actions like hunting, which take an instant, could simply indicate an inconsequential pause in other activity.

I also had a person claim that Cantrairians are not naked, that they only have "Nothing worth mentioning." However, when something as little as a loincloth is "worth mentioning," what could they possibly be wearing that isn't?

This thread is actually very relevant for an article I plan to write for the next edition of the webzine. I'll have to remember to cite it.

[theguy]

Cantrarians are just small humans who have utilty belts

If everybody had a loin cloth it wouldent be worth mentioning everybody has one.

[Nick]

Cantrarians are just small humans who have utilty belts

Made out of what?
No, we have no clothes. It used to say naked but some people found that offensive, or at least that's what I remember the reason to be.

[theguy]

Ok but i will not accept that canterians have lots of pairs of limbs.
mabey the use the sheled handel and shove it up there arm this means you could hold 2 sheilds and a wepon (or two if they are singal handed)

For the sake of the role play we all must imagin that cantraians are like ordanry humans othere wise we will day stuff like

"oh no my arm just fell off not to worry i still have 3 more''

[Nick]

For the sake of the role play we all must imagin that cantraians are like ordanry humans'

Says who?

[theguy]

Nick I said that the world will go mad if everybody think of cantrians and 6 armed kangaroos (at leat the cantr one will)

[Nick]

Why would it? Why would it make a difference? It's not like there's anything important relying on the assumption that we only have two arms, two legs.

[Racetyme]

It's important for rp purposes. If they are not miniature humans then ever rped sex scene ever is probably wrong, and most other complex rp's.

[Stan]

Sorry, I disagree. I see no reason why the number of arms would have anything to do with RP or anything else.

[The Industriallist]

It could have a good deal to do with inaccurate 'RP' (by which people often mean 'actions not implemented by the game in any way'), where for instance someone claims to have run out of free hands, just because they're drawing a bow or something. If we actually had 8 hands, that wouldn't come up...

Since number of hands, whatever it is, never actually has an impact on game-play, this isn't exactly reasonable RP in context.

[Antichrist_Online]

I see them appearing human, but that only been the same way a hypercube would apear to be a bunch of cubes, they achieve everything by dimension skipping, from pointland (towns) to lineland (roads) to Vectorland (sea), thus they are just a series of ever changing simlar humans. When we get helicopters we have multiple flatlands (altitudes) forming a three dimensional spaceland.