Do You Prefer to Play a Human PC When RPGing?

[TroyXavier]

I voted yes. Most of my characters are human but I do like playing Gnomes as well and sometimes Half-Orcs.

 

[drothgery]

I voted yes; I've played humans, an elf, a halfling, and a warforged, but it's human more often than not. I don't like the flavor of the other races that are mechanically as good (dwarf and warforged), just don't like giving up a feat or a skill point per level (feats and skill points are too hard to come by), and find it easier to pretend to be a human.

 

[Hawken]

I'll have to go with Human on this. As far as roleplaying goes, I can work with pretty much any race and do not have preferences. But when it comes to gaming, that extra feat and skill points make anything other than a dwarf not really worth the loss and then, if its a fighter type class, its an even tougher call between dwarf or human.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Single or double malt?

Yeah? I was thinking 'stout'.

 

[ForceUser]

Yeah? I was thinking 'stout'.

*golf clap*

Thank yew, folks. He'll be here alllll week.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just to throw the old monkey wrench...

Why does it seem that most of the posters are assuming RPGing = D&D?

 

[Corinth]

Because, for all intents and purposes, that is the case. D&D beats out all other TRPGs combined by an order of magnitude, in terms of player network size.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And yet the question was not confined to D&D.

While its true that D&D comprises about 60-70% of the market & active games, there's still a goodly number of games in which 1) Humans are the minority, and 2) Humans are not even an option.

(For the record, I'm ignoring games that have humans only because that would moot the question.)

For that matter, there are significant numbers of D&D campaigns in which humans are not an option (I've run several myself).

 

[Hairfoot]

I've done a U-turn. For 15 years I played nothing but humans, stopped RPGing for 3 years, and now I play anything but. I used to find human PCs comfortingly familiar, now I find them boringly familiar.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Übermensch Magocracy!

I DM a Thayan campaign. Non-humans are mulch.

-Samir​