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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6518998" data-attributes="member: 4937">I tend to prefer humans as it's easiest to develop emotional complexity with them.  I find it very difficult to think in an alien mode consistently, and in particular its almost impossible to do that and imagine the range of modes of behavior than an alien species might have.  There is a strong tendency to characterize entire alien races by single individuals and never be able to imagine any nuance to them.  Still, I don't mind going alien when I think I have a strong idea for a character.However, I don't really empathize much with the idea that in playing a human you are taking a step down in mythic power compared to the alternatives.  Humanity wrote the myths.  They pretty much always write the human into the central heroic role.  It's pretty rare for a major protagonist to be anything less than half human prior to say Tolkien (books) or Star Wars (movies).   Before that the only non-human protagonists I can think of are in animal stories - Aesop, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, etc. - or a few fairy tales (assorted sentient food items, sausages, pancakes, ginger men, etc.).   And I guess on top of that, I really don't game to have phenomenal cosmic power, especially if it comes with itty bitty conceptual space.  I like character exploration as much as anything, in part because as someone that is typically the DM, phenomenal cosmic power holds no special attraction to me.  That's the normal situation.  I don't need to get that trip on the other side of the screen.</blockquote>

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