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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2873111" data-attributes="member: 18832">Actually, it comes from something I couldn't express to my satisfaction in my original post, so I chose not to try. I will give it a go now:I have a prejudice against people who play a nonhuman race for the sake of not being human. This is not to say that I begrudge them the right to do so, but I enjoy the game less when someone's playing their character as a dwarf to be different, or because "dwarves are awesome, dude", rather than because their character concept is best represented by a dwarf.Therefore, I personally prefer playing with people who are more likely to make their character distinctive and individual through their portrayal, not because they're "the elf" or "the orc".That said, in a D&D setting some of the character concepts that would be best fulfilled by a human in another setting are best fulfilled by a nonhuman character. For instance, in Eberron, I would suggest that playing the outsider who seeks to prove his worth to mainstream society is best done as a shifter or warforged or changeling or goblinoid, because my perception of the setting is that there's not much in the way of "real-world" style racism going around, between people of the same D&D race with different skin colour.You could also play this character concept as a former citizen of Cyre trying to find a place in the world after the destruction of her homeland, of course, and that would make sense too; that decision, though, comes down to the choice of additional elements. Playing this outsider as a warforged implies different additional facts about the character than does playing her as a shifter, because the ways in which those races are counted "outsiders" differ, as do their ways of coping with social marginalisation.So I think of characters as "human unless they need to not be" not because I prefer playing humans per se but because I'm sick of people who play their race as their personality, as if that makes them genuinely distinctive. A really distinctive character is distinctive because of who they are; a well-realised human PC is preferable to another cookie-cutter elf like all the rest of them.(Which is not to imply anything about your motivations for playing elves all the time, sniffles, or to suggest that they're cookie-cutter characters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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