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EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Yeah, while Dragonborn have (and probably always will have) a special place in my heart, I enjoy playing a wide variety of races. Thr-kreen are a little out there for me, but orcs/half-orcs, elves/half-elves, dwarves, werewolves/shifters/beastmen, and others (both within and outside D&D) have substantial appeal too. I also play humans, though usually it is because I don't have a choice, or have a specific character idea in mind.
(Also, if we're allowed to mention non-D&D races, Draenei would be a very close second to Dragonborn. They're pretty much reverse Tieflings, yet still exiles and wanderers, which I think is a neat combination.)
Alsox2 combo: Perhaps it's because I said something, but while there had been only two votes for Dragonborn when I first posted, there are now six. Perhaps it's not quite as reviled as I had thought!
Or Hin, said the guy (me) from Karameikos
AaronOfBarbaria
Adventurer
I rarely get to play, rather than DM, as is the expected case when one enjoys DMing and is good at it.
But when I do get to play, I play humans about 75% of the time, Elves of some variety 10% of the time, a dwarf, a halfling, a half-orc, a dragonborn, and a half-elf once each (and constituting the left out 15%)
But when I do get to play, I play humans about 75% of the time, Elves of some variety 10% of the time, a dwarf, a halfling, a half-orc, a dragonborn, and a half-elf once each (and constituting the left out 15%)
I almost always play dwarves, because by comparison, members of other races are all a bunch of shandy-drinkin' poofters. I just find myself drawn to the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails feel of this race from an RP perspective, as depicted by characters like Gotrek Gurnisson from Warhammer's Gotrek and Felix series.
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Li Shenron
Legend
The majority of my characters are human, for a couple of reasons:
- normally I am more focused on class as the main character identity, everything else comes second
- I have yet to see a DM really build a fantasy world where race matters... in most fantasy settings all races have copy-cat cultures and society dynamics
I am not interested in playing just a "human in pointy ears" or "human with funny accent". I am interested in playing another race if I can try to imagine how such person may have a very different perspective on life and the world, for example because her race lives 1000 years but is very few in numbers: what are their values, how do they think and feel on matters such as friendship, property, justice, death, knowledge, war, arts, vengeance... The problem is that when I try that, it's always like I am the only one who cares, while the fantasy world around just treats everybody the same. So choice of race becomes a matter of convenience, e.g. pick this race because their bonuses synergize well with your class... in which case, I'd rather just play a human, who typically have flexibile benefits and let me choose what I want.
- normally I am more focused on class as the main character identity, everything else comes second
- I have yet to see a DM really build a fantasy world where race matters... in most fantasy settings all races have copy-cat cultures and society dynamics
I am not interested in playing just a "human in pointy ears" or "human with funny accent". I am interested in playing another race if I can try to imagine how such person may have a very different perspective on life and the world, for example because her race lives 1000 years but is very few in numbers: what are their values, how do they think and feel on matters such as friendship, property, justice, death, knowledge, war, arts, vengeance... The problem is that when I try that, it's always like I am the only one who cares, while the fantasy world around just treats everybody the same. So choice of race becomes a matter of convenience, e.g. pick this race because their bonuses synergize well with your class... in which case, I'd rather just play a human, who typically have flexibile benefits and let me choose what I want.
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Kichwas
Half-breed
I usually like half-orcs that were either the process of a normal family mix, or who's Orc parent was captured by humans.
Then again, even before WoW and playing Horde, I looked at the DnD races and alignments and felt I'd rather look at them from a different perspective.
If I were in a game that included the Minotaur options I saw popping up in 4E (or was it a Pathfinder book, not sure) or Unearthed Arcana - than I'd be all over that. Especially since in mythology the Minotaur was a benevolent guardian warrior of the people of Minos and Troy, until the Greeks conquered them and distorted their mythology as propaganda (must as the Naga is a guardian spirit in Hindu, and has been corrupted in DnD, or some earlier source, for its western take. Someone I know is named Naga, and this is considered to make her very lucky and protected - I'd play a Naga creature if the angle on them was done right).
Dreadlocks does not make a Rastafari.
You'd never find one of us as a DnD Adventurer because we're a pacifist religion. And not all of us have locks.
Dreadlocks have many sources around the world, predominant both among Hindu mystics and various African groups.
But the modern take as associated with Rasta began as a recognized thing when an elite unit serving under Emperor Selassie (aka Ras Tafari) swore not to cut or comb their hair until the Italians had been successfully repelled out of Ethiopia - the mid 1930s.
Then again, even before WoW and playing Horde, I looked at the DnD races and alignments and felt I'd rather look at them from a different perspective.
If I were in a game that included the Minotaur options I saw popping up in 4E (or was it a Pathfinder book, not sure) or Unearthed Arcana - than I'd be all over that. Especially since in mythology the Minotaur was a benevolent guardian warrior of the people of Minos and Troy, until the Greeks conquered them and distorted their mythology as propaganda (must as the Naga is a guardian spirit in Hindu, and has been corrupted in DnD, or some earlier source, for its western take. Someone I know is named Naga, and this is considered to make her very lucky and protected - I'd play a Naga creature if the angle on them was done right).
Dreadlocks does not make a Rastafari.
You'd never find one of us as a DnD Adventurer because we're a pacifist religion. And not all of us have locks.
Dreadlocks have many sources around the world, predominant both among Hindu mystics and various African groups.
But the modern take as associated with Rasta began as a recognized thing when an elite unit serving under Emperor Selassie (aka Ras Tafari) swore not to cut or comb their hair until the Italians had been successfully repelled out of Ethiopia - the mid 1930s.
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