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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5374266" data-attributes="member: 1165">Drizzt is a hell of a lot more than a drow ranger dual-wielding scimitars. He has many character traits, giving him strong flavor. Alas, strong flavor can be strong bad flavor.Being a good-aligned drow is difficult enough. They're rare. They have to escape their cities. This means they have to be badass. And then live on the surface, where nearly everyone hates and fears them? A drow wizard with lame physical stats, but who is good-aligned and lives on the surface, is more similar to Drizzt than an underground dwelling dual-wielding evil drow ranger.Heh. It's only one character trait though. <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame" target="_blank">It's when they're all the same it's a problem.</a>Raistlin has a lot of character traits. It's pretty hard to play a Raistlin clone. In fact, it's probably nearly impossible without a lot of DM assistance and house rules.Never seen this. Lucky me?Only one character trait, and pretty much the only character class in most DnD editions with 1: Charisma. 2: Not seen as straight-laced, unlike paladins and most clerics. 3: Social skills. Note that sorcerers are lacking in the last department. The sorcerer just might have more luck than the ranger with a Charisma score of 8 though...Mmmm... sorcereress shorts. I don't know what's up with the robe. Way too distracted to think of a decent reply.Because no one has ever ridden an animal into war before, or even for long-distance travel. A halfling is too small for a horse, they might as well ride a large dog. Or a small dinosaur. DnD makes mounts suck quite a bit, in fact, and it's only a character trait if all of a sudden everyone is playing halflings as "friends to all animals".Well, you get -2 to Int (in 3.x), and until the warlord class came out*, half-orcs pretty much sucked at most Int-using classes. Rogue was about the only one they could do well. (Incidentally, there was a pretty intelligent half-orc rogue in Order of the Stick.) It's about as stereotypical as a gnome wizard with low Strength...*I don't count Dragonlance 3e's noble class, or pretty much any martial leader-type class until Book of Nine Sword's White Raven whatever concept.Tell that to the DM who had the whole town guard throw my thri-kreen PC out of town. (Especially after I scared a homeless guy to death. Being psychic, my character actually could have killed him by staring at him, but didn't on the grounds that he wasn't evil. This was Palladium, by the way.)Not only have I never seen this, but pretty much everyone I know who plays DnD hates gnomes due to the lame stereotypes assigned to them. Like this one!The latter, because drow are freaking rare on the surface. Also, that's not even a character trait. Legolas clones are only common because Legolas is so vanilla, and also because elves have good Dexterity without any kind of speed penalty. (Same with Gimli clones; it's mechanically sound, and it's barely a personality trait.) You don't see Aragorn clones more often because Aragorn has an actual personality and is also using a non-standard build. Legolas and Gimli clones have to make their own independent personalities (or not...).</blockquote>

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