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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5541572" data-attributes="member: 18701">It all has to do with the type of campaign that you run. It also has to do with the playstyle of the players and DM.If the group doesn't really roleplay much and they are content to just hack-n-slash, then a monster PC is not going to make any bit of difference other than the fact of making sure he is properly balanced with the level of other PCs.If the group is playing a more "fantastical" setting, then a monster PC probably isn't going to be looked at twice from the NPCs.But if the group is playing a more traditional fantasy game, where Trolls are feared and pretty much killed on sight (or you run away on sight), then it would be pretty lame to have a Troll in the adventuring party. My first thought would be, "Who the hell are the guys traveling with a freaking Troll?" And if some how a group of guys would travel with a Troll, that doesn't mean NPCs are going to be ok with it and never react. I mean hell, dress a white guy up in a cowboy hat and boots, push him into a hip-hop club, and tell me people in the club are not going to be reacting to him. And in the case of the Troll, he's not even the same species, doesn't have to wear a cowboy hat, and his kin are known to rip people to shreds and eat them. If he doesn't get a reaction from every single town he enters, then those are some pretty darn tolerant NPCs!It appears (and this is only my assumption, I could be totally wrong but seeing as how 4e has Tieflings and Dragonborn as core races, I think I'm right) that even Half-Orcs these days are thought of no differently than a Human or Elf. It has always been my understanding that even a Half-Orc was supposed to be treated almost like a monster race. In a traditional setting, it's not like Orcs are freely kicking it with humans in a village tavern (they are usually burning the tavern down). So when a Half-Orc shows up, people are going to be pretty dang weary of the guy. They may be a bit more tolerant towards him since he is half-human, but I don't think anyone I have played with in the past 10 years has ever treated Half-Orcs as the freaks of nature that they are.</blockquote>

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