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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 2:14PM
#11
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Date Joined:
Jan 28, 2004
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As opposed to, say, the drow who, if you play against your culture you're expected to have a good reason for it.
"My culture is full of ***holes, I'm outta here" is good enough for anybody I've ever met.
Or he was a religious convert-'heretic', a religious opposition... Like *Bahamut*, found in a lost temple who was sundered...
Or such... But it work the same way.
My drow freeform RPing character Leyra'La is a passive, indirect version of what you suggested.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 2:26PM
#12
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"My culture is full of ***holes, I'm outta here"
Heh, ironically, that's what I requested for my tombstone when I check out.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 5:10PM
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I honestly don't think I have one. I play what's needed at the table, and choose race based on the class selection.
That being said, I've played 3 Eladrin and 3 Deva now, which is the most I've played of any one race, so I suppose one of them would fit the bill if only by numbers... Kinda wish I had more to do with Tieflings and Warforged though... haven't gotten any chances to play with them yet...
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 5:56PM
#14
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For some reason, I've never like dwarves. Ironically, I'm playing one now in (what should be) a long term campaign. It's a fun challenge.
What I tend to like: dark sun elves, dark sun halflings, muls, humans.
I really don't like the flavor of the crazy exotic races: shardmind, warforged, genasi, etc... I'd like them a lot more if they were weird and rare in a given world. I just have a weird predisposition toward wanting the "vanilla" fantasy races to be the mainstream (elf, dwarf, human) and the rest of them to be the exception and out of the norm. There's just something weird, to me, about a table at a bar where a warforged, water genasi, dragonborn, and shardmind are sitting down to have a drink and chatting amicably without any sort of racial conflicts or weirdness based on their species.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 6:55PM
#15
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2004
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The other nice thing about humans is that they're not obviously optimal the way, say, a goliath fighter is. So, there's less of a risk that someone will see my character and think I'm powergaming, which I'm not.
[N]o difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions. - L. Tolstoy
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 8:26PM
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For some reason, I've never like dwarves. Ironically, I'm playing one now in (what should be) a long term campaign. It's a fun challenge.
What I tend to like: dark sun elves, dark sun halflings, muls, humans.
I really don't like the flavor of the crazy exotic races: shardmind, warforged, genasi, etc... I'd like them a lot more if they were weird and rare in a given world. I just have a weird predisposition toward wanting the "vanilla" fantasy races to be the mainstream (elf, dwarf, human) and the rest of them to be the exception and out of the norm. There's just something weird, to me, about a table at a bar where a warforged, water genasi, dragonborn, and shardmind are sitting down to have a drink and chatting amicably without any sort of racial conflicts or weirdness based on their species.
Why would their species matter?
Another day, another three or four entries to my Ignore List.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2011 - 9:17PM
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I'm that player who always tries to find something monstrous to play... dragonborn in 3.5, half-nymph, and a history of 4e shifters are the highlights.
That's probably why I like DMing so much... I get to be everyone, from the half-orc bouncer at the pub to the horde of rampaging awakened animal barbarians!
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2 years ago ::
Oct 28, 2011 - 4:42PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 16, 2009
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I don't really have a favored race. A lot of my theoretical builds are human, but that's almost always for the simple mechanical reason of the extra feat at level 1.
For characters that develop to where I could play them, the race is based on the character concept or setting or both. Which sometimes means mechanically optimal, sometimes it means mechanically decent, and sometimes mechanics are a very minor issue. My dog, for example, I looked for a race that has a racial feature that fits how I see an intelligent dog behaving in combat. Stat bonuses came after that.
"The world does not work the way you have been taught it does. We are not real as such; we exist within The Story. Unfortunately for you, you have inherited a condition from your mother known as Primary Protagonist Syndrome, which means The Story is interested in you. It will find you, and if you are not ready for the narrative strands it will throw at you..." - from Footloose
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2 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2011 - 3:19AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 30, 2007
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Dragonborn are my most often played race. They usually get RP'd as arrogant, ambitious, and slightly racist towards non-draconic races. My second closest is gnolls, who are usually predatory and pack-oriented.
And viciously racist against Tieflings my personal favorite ::SHAKE FIST:: I tend to play my tieflings as mischieveious but redemptive, and usually very passionate and hotblooded in all things. Also they tend to be very protective of their few real friends and allies.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2011 - 4:35AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 14, 2007
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For some reason I like gnomes -- since 2e days. 4e constrained some options a bit, but alI so made others more cool.
Dwarves are always great, but recently I also got into warforged and (razorclaw) shifters.
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