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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5448897" data-attributes="member: 3820">Yeah, exactly. The needs of a puzzle monster are different than the needs of a protagonist. Heh. Basically, when I write down things like race and class I am sometimes just grudgingly paying tribute to the book-names. The goliath bard in one of my games is neither &quot;goliath&quot; nor &quot;bard&quot; in-character: he's one of the Graystacks, the immense and quiet denizens of the Library, and he thinks of himself as a human librarian. Human is simply a... more inclusive term in that setting. Similarly, my feylock is neither fey-pacted nor a warlock: he refers to himself as a &quot;tenebrous adept&quot;, and is fond of the phrase. My wife selected &quot;half-elf bard&quot; in the character builder, but we both know that she's a strategist by trade, and a fox-blooded human by birth. A Vryloka with Dhampyr and Revenant bloodline feats and a vampire class is a pile of vampire, but really it's all about the skinning. I'd assume this guy is a gray-skinned, gentlemanly beast with a ravening appetite, whereas a simple &quot;human vampire&quot; is closer to the blush of life, even if he does pursue his vampiric abilities as a path to power. But it would depend!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 5448897, member: 3820"] Yeah, exactly. The needs of a puzzle monster are different than the needs of a protagonist. Heh. Basically, when I write down things like race and class I am sometimes just grudgingly paying tribute to the book-names. The goliath bard in one of my games is neither "goliath" nor "bard" in-character: he's one of the Graystacks, the immense and quiet denizens of the Library, and he thinks of himself as a human librarian. Human is simply a... more inclusive term in that setting. Similarly, my feylock is neither fey-pacted nor a warlock: he refers to himself as a "tenebrous adept", and is fond of the phrase. My wife selected "half-elf bard" in the character builder, but we both know that she's a strategist by trade, and a fox-blooded human by birth. A Vryloka with Dhampyr and Revenant bloodline feats and a vampire class is a pile of vampire, but really it's all about the skinning. I'd assume this guy is a gray-skinned, gentlemanly beast with a ravening appetite, whereas a simple "human vampire" is closer to the blush of life, even if he does pursue his vampiric abilities as a path to power. But it would depend! [/QUOTE]

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