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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8490558" data-attributes="member: 7032025">That's your opinion, but unfortunately it's certainly not the one at our tables, because race matters a lot for roleplaying. The lizard-man ranger at our BG-DiA is a joy to play with BECAUSE he is a lizard man (and much less for any other reason), with extremely strange customs, and players have only now (after 50 sessions) figured out that she is actually female. The two halflings are perpetually frustrated by the horrible taste of food in Avernus and spend their time trying to get other things to eat, even getting drunk before a nasty assassination attempt in the war tent of a Devil Prince. and my Half-Siren Demigoddess who never speaks, only sings because of her ancestry is a joy to play, as is are the medusa or the minotaur in our Odyssey of the Dragonlords. Even the plain human in the group is really interesting since he is the only one of his kind, and the less human in the group find him funny.So, by all means, you can play humans with funny hats all you want in your campaigns, but fantasy races are an absolute staple of most fantasy world and have been in D&amp;D for almost 50 years. So yes, it changes the game for extremely bad reasons, because once more this is not about the immense majority of fantasy races but about two specific examples that people always bring to the table, forgetting that there are many other things which are debatable in D&amp;D history and which have nothing to do with race, but more with culture or faction.So yes, due to WotC trying their best to weather a storm that has little to do with the hobby, races have been technically less important for a while now, but some of us still do roleplay about them, and roleplaying is the point of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8490558, member: 7032025"] That's your opinion, but unfortunately it's certainly not the one at our tables, because race matters a lot for roleplaying. The lizard-man ranger at our BG-DiA is a joy to play with BECAUSE he is a lizard man (and much less for any other reason), with extremely strange customs, and players have only now (after 50 sessions) figured out that she is actually female. The two halflings are perpetually frustrated by the horrible taste of food in Avernus and spend their time trying to get other things to eat, even getting drunk before a nasty assassination attempt in the war tent of a Devil Prince. and my Half-Siren Demigoddess who never speaks, only sings because of her ancestry is a joy to play, as is are the medusa or the minotaur in our Odyssey of the Dragonlords. Even the plain human in the group is really interesting since he is the only one of his kind, and the less human in the group find him funny. So, by all means, you can play humans with funny hats all you want in your campaigns, but fantasy races are an absolute staple of most fantasy world and have been in D&D for almost 50 years. So yes, it changes the game for extremely bad reasons, because once more this is not about the immense majority of fantasy races but about two specific examples that people always bring to the table, forgetting that there are many other things which are debatable in D&D history and which have nothing to do with race, but more with culture or faction. So yes, due to WotC trying their best to weather a storm that has little to do with the hobby, races have been technically less important for a while now, but some of us still do roleplay about them, and roleplaying is the point of the game. [/QUOTE]

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