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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4046458" data-attributes="member: 1054">Ah, yes, I forgot...what matters is what cool powers you have. That is the beginning and end of personality.Can you show me how any of the races presented thus far encourage cliche-breaking? Or how playing Tasslehoff is more original than playing Frodo? (&quot;Annoying&quot; is not the same as &quot;original&quot;)Let's see...based on the 4e previews thus far, we can play Legolas (Elf), Elrond (Eladrin), Gimli (Dwarf) or Tasslehoff (Halfling). No real information on Tieflings (Drizzt with a tail), or Humans (Captain Generic) yet.And if you think there's only one way to play an initially unwilling or reluctant hero...or that every one such is Frodo...well, remind me not to game at your table nor invite you to mine. (My last halfling character was much more Casanunda than Frodo, anyway...then he managed to get a milkmaid &quot;in a family way&quot; and had to deal with being a somewhat reluctant family man while also being a semi-professional adventurer, with both his birth family and marriage family being deeply disapproving of all of his various lifestyle choices...convincing the in-laws that the money he brought in to the family was worth the risk, especially when he came back from one such foray in two separate boxes, was always a fun prelude to a new story arc. But I digress. (Yeah, characters in the games I play in have families, social responsibilities, and lives beyond the dungeon. Go figure.))</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4046458, member: 1054"] Ah, yes, I forgot...what matters is what cool powers you have. That is the beginning and end of personality. Can you show me how any of the races presented thus far encourage cliche-breaking? Or how playing Tasslehoff is more original than playing Frodo? ("Annoying" is not the same as "original") Let's see...based on the 4e previews thus far, we can play Legolas (Elf), Elrond (Eladrin), Gimli (Dwarf) or Tasslehoff (Halfling). No real information on Tieflings (Drizzt with a tail), or Humans (Captain Generic) yet. And if you think there's only one way to play an initially unwilling or reluctant hero...or that every one such is Frodo...well, remind me not to game at your table nor invite you to mine. (My last halfling character was much more Casanunda than Frodo, anyway...then he managed to get a milkmaid "in a family way" and had to deal with being a somewhat reluctant family man while also being a semi-professional adventurer, with both his birth family and marriage family being deeply disapproving of all of his various lifestyle choices...convincing the in-laws that the money he brought in to the family was worth the risk, especially when he came back from one such foray in two separate boxes, was always a fun prelude to a new story arc. But I digress. (Yeah, characters in the games I play in have families, social responsibilities, and lives beyond the dungeon. Go figure.)) [/QUOTE]

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