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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3682249" data-attributes="member: 23810">This is how i generally ref non-humans. Explain the stereotype, and then let the player work with it in his own way. A player who doesn't accept that his decisions will have consequences isn't really thinking things through (especially someone who decides to ignore the awkward bits). like others have said, its simple enough to come up with a few bullet point descriptors and let the PC run with it. Most interesting sometimes is watching people play half-creatures (even a half-elf) where the decision on which parent they take after sets up personality conflicts quite nicelyI've played an obsidiman (Skin as rock, un-sexed communal living giants) in Earthdawn and that took a little getting my head around. One of the other characters was an semi-aquatic lizard (i forget the name) swashbuckler type who had an eye for the ladies (and an inflatable frill... but no concept of marriage), something my obsidiman could never understand (no concept of sex). It made for a lot of interesting discussions, and definitely gave us a unique flavour without messing up the fun for the others</blockquote>