Players: have you ever been racialy denied by you DM?

[diaglo]

But Diaglo, Kender didn't exist in 1974 - how could you possibly even ask to play one?

i converted them to OD&D when they were first introduced.

heck the 2000ed halflings are kender in my opinion...+2 vs fear, their slim physique, their rogue favored class, their topknot pics, their....

read the story hour in my sig after about page 10 or so.

 

[talinthas]

i've done it before and i'll do it again. But then again, when the party is composed of elves hunting ogres, playing a half ogre is detrimental to the concept.
or playing a gnome when everyone else is human, from an isolated island with no other races.

mainly i do it to fit the campaign, as opposed to just straight dislike.

 

[der_kluge]

A lot of DMs have issue with me playing female characters all the time. Of course, when I say "all the time", what that really means is that fully half of all my characters are female. One DM, describing a prospective game that he was thinking of, turned to me and said, "and I'm just not sure about you playing a female...". I guess some DMs have a hard time separating me as a person, and me as my character. *shrug*

Not that it's on topic, but it's something I've been singled out for.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Well there was that time I wanted to play the Half-Dragon Troll Barbarian...

 

[Sejs]

Well there was that time I wanted to play the Half-Dragon Troll Barbarian...

Sounds like he'd go well with the Kua-Toa Tattooed Monk I have to keep telling one of my players that he can't play.

 

[welby]

I think I only know a single person (hey, at least one), that I believe could play a Kender without being a pure annoyance.

Bye
Thanee

No way. I think I did a darn good job with mine. The trick was finding ways to accidently help the party. The other party members also need to understand how Kenders work in order to have some control over them.

Usually, taking a second or two to talk to my kender and tell him how important his job was, was enough to get him to focus on it for some amount of time.

People still ask me to play Welby because he was so much fun, but man did he ever wear me out! Talking quickly and jumping subjects in a stream of consciousness-like manner is a LOT harder than it looks.