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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 9016185" data-attributes="member: 509">Skimming this thread, I see a lot of talk of taking this race or that race for the mechanical benefits, but I've not seen this behaviour at my table since 3e. This used to bug me back then, I've always felt that you should then commit to roleplaying your race as something distinct from a human.Nowadays, I feel it's all about aesthetics for most players I meet in the wild. They mainly choose what they think looks cool, like a skin in a video game. Halflings and dwarves are the two exceptions to this, everyone else is just playing a human, but purple and with badass horns. This still irritates me a bit, but it feels innocent enough compared to the mechanical buffing.Same here and I have no real idea where my younger players get their halflings archetypes from exactly, which have much more in common with Dragonlance's kender than Tolkien's hobbits, despite none of them knowing anything about Dragonlance.</blockquote>