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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doulos05" data-source="post: 4444658" data-attributes="member: 74145">Well, I talked it over with the rest of the party, and I'll be talking it over with him tonight. When I mentioned it to the rest of the party, the response ranged from "Why can't he just play something normal?" to "Well, in that case I'll play one too, since it's more optimal for my role as well." Since I expect this game to involve a lot of roleplay, particularly diplomacy and high-level negotiations with the rulers of countries, I decided I couldn't say "Yes" to one and "No" to everybody else, so I pulled it back to PHB races only. I mainly did that because I don't want two party members completely to mostly shut out of what I hope to be a rather important part of the game, simply because of their race. We've played games where there was one character who, by virtue of his build and demeanor, was excluded from social settings (It was in Traveller, he was a Human who openly hated Vilani working in the Vilani empire. My favorite quote from that was him talking to a Vilani policeman, "Aren't you guys like Vampires? Don't you have to be invited in? Who invited you on my ship?") But even in that case, it was his choice whether the encounter went poorly or not because it was his prejudice. But having two people who are feared or despised by most of the known world will be too much. Besides, that makes the encounters where they are trying to gather armies to face the Goblinoid horde all the more awkward. "Wait, you're telling me a massive Goblin is coming and that to beat them we need to assemble here? I'm sure you Goblin scum would love to bait us like that, but I'm no fool! Guards, arrest those traitors!"</blockquote>

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