D&D General Do Your Human Characters Match Your Ethnicity (etc)?

[Iry]

I'm all over the place. Sometimes I even flip a coin or roll randomly so there is intentionally no reason for my choice at all.

 

[briggart]

White male and my 5e human PCs have been Mulan, Rashemi, FFolk, Bedine, Halruan. All males.

 

[Li Shenron]

I am just curious about this one- obviously also inspired by the current conversations. Do your human pcs tend to look like you? Do they usually match your ethnicity, sex, gender, and sexual preference? How often do you play characters who don't?

I randomize my PCs when it comes to non-functional details.

A few times I have randomized everything else too.

 

[Fenris-77]

I randomize my PCs when it comes to non-functional details.

Speak for yourself, my details are fully functional. You have my sympathies though.

 

[Xenonnonex]

While I play a variety of races I never play female characters, I've just never really seen the point.

Presumably this is a roleplaying game.

 

[Xenonnonex]

I play a bunch. Rarely human. Other fantasy creatures are more interesting.

 

[Tonguez]

.It's weird how often I play character smaller than I am-- I'm just a hair under average height for an American man, a couple inches shorter than my father was, but I'm built like a tank. Most of my human characters are a couple of inches shorter than me, and not much more than half my weight.

Given a choice, I'd be bigger. Of course, given a choice I'd also be darker, and have straight black hair.

At 5’11 I’m the shortest in my family (my little Brother is 6’4” and even my sister is 6’!!!) but my main character is a gnome - so maybe I have shortness issues, a misplaced Napolean complex

I also tend to play High Dex, Acrobatic characters, which Im not.

 

[Fenris-77]

I tend to play high intelligence, low wisdom characters with motor mouths and a flair for sarcasm and a penchant for deception, which I'm .... wait ... oh, dear.

 

[S'mon]

Varies over time. About 1/3 my PCs are female. Some are non-white depending on the setting, eg Zana Than my Ironborn Fighter in Midnight was from an African type background, probably Sudanese would be closest IRL. I mostly GM so haven't got a huge range of PCs, and my current PC is a CG male Tengu sorcerer in a 5e fantasy Japan game.

 

[Tallifer]

I prefer playing humans to other species so I often refluff the mechanics of a D&D race into a human and use a different ethnicity or mythical origin to explain any exotic features.