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<blockquote data-quote="Reprisal" data-source="post: 769734" data-attributes="member: 1161">I find it interesting that I only play humans, while Dragongirl never plays them, for approximately the same reason. The only difference is the fact that I approach non-humans as crutches for roleplaying. Essentially, I think my playing an elf or a dwarf would take half the fun out of playing a character because a portion of my creative process would have been done. &quot;My character is an elf, so part of his personality is already hardcoded in...&quot;Of course, this isn't the case in any objective sense, but in my subjective perception, I can make a more interesting character out of a human than I could out of an elf, dwarf, or gnome. The basic reason is because a human is more of a blank slate than any other non-human. In my experience, characters react to the racial makeup of a character if they're perceived to have any racial makeup at all... A human, generally speaking, might not have a racial identity whereas an elf has all the baggage -- true or not -- that comes with being an elf.I'm assuming a lot with these lines, but of course, everyone's D&amp;D reality is quite unique -- and dare I say subjective? *shrug*&nbsp; Something to think about, I guess, heh, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />&nbsp;- Rep.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reprisal, post: 769734, member: 1161"] I find it interesting that I only play humans, while Dragongirl never plays them, for approximately the same reason. The only difference is the fact that I approach non-humans as crutches for roleplaying. Essentially, I think my playing an elf or a dwarf would take half the fun out of playing a character because a portion of my creative process would have been done. "My character is an elf, so part of his personality is already hardcoded in..." Of course, this isn't the case in any objective sense, but in my subjective perception, I can make a more interesting character out of a human than I could out of an elf, dwarf, or gnome. The basic reason is because a human is more of a blank slate than any other non-human. In my experience, characters react to the racial makeup of a character if they're perceived to have any racial makeup at all... A human, generally speaking, might not have a racial identity whereas an elf has all the baggage -- true or not -- that comes with being an elf. I'm assuming a lot with these lines, but of course, everyone's D&D reality is quite unique -- and dare I say subjective? *shrug* Something to think about, I guess, heh, :cool: - Rep. [/QUOTE]

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