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03-22-2009, 09:21 PM
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This installment of All the World's a Stage (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/all-the-worlds-a-stage/) is the thirtieth in a series of roleplaying guides (http://wowinsider.com/tag/roleplaying-lore-guides) in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class (or profession!) well, without embarrassing yourself.

I should say at the outset of this article that I am a vegetarian, and I generally think of animals as cute and fuzzy friends of the human race. I have no moral objection against hunting animals and using their bodies for food or clothing, however. Logically, it makes sense that people have needed this to survive, but emotionally speaking, I find skinning and eating animals rather distasteful. Things would have been different for me if I had been raised on a farm or in a hunting community instead of a city thoroughly saturated with the culture of Disney movies about cute animals singing songs and having adventures, but... anyways, you are what you are. Hunting enthusiasts should feel free to write their own articles on the topic if they have different points of view.

So, anyway, as my vegetarian brain started churning around this idea of how skinning can be roleplayed in World of Warcraft, I couldn't help but admit to myself that I don't have so much real life experience of the topic. In fact, my first google search of "Skinning" turned up none other than WoWwiki's page on skinning in WoW (http://www.wowwiki.com/Skinning), and I realized most people living in cities probably haven't got the first clue of what skinning animals is really like.

So I searched again for "skinning animals (http://www.google.com/search?q=skinning+animals&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)," and this time I found various articles about how to skin an animal for people who are interested in surviving in the wilderness, or just into hunting in general. One site even had simple hand-drawn animations (http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Skills/Hunting%20and%20Snaring/Skinning&Gutting.htm) of the proper way to kill and skin a rabbit, and I was struck by how very different this was from my experience of skinning in WoW. In the animation, we see the head and feet get cut off, a slice go down the middle of the animal's body, and the skin slowly peeling away to reveal all the flesh underneath... while in WoW we just right-click on a dead animal, loot its hide, and poof -- it disappears before our eyes.Continue reading All the World's a Stage: So you want to be a Skinner (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/22/all-the-worlds-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-a-skinner/)

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