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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9397167" data-attributes="member: 58416">I wouldn't necessarily say it's a turnoff, but I do believe that it would create an extra level of abstraction and distance from the game for me. I often have difficulty in conversations that draw a line between fluff and crunch. To me, they should have a coherent relationship, and one doesn't exist without the other. Let's say I were playing a minotaur. It is already sometimes a little weird that D&D has some restrictions on when and how I can use my horns -but I accept that some level of abstraction might be best for game mechanics. If it were taken a step further and there were zero mechanical support for my minotaur character being in any way different from a human, that would seem odd to me. I think a good game could be built around not having fantasy races in the same way that D&D does. R. Howard's Conan stories had different cultures and nationalities, but didn't (typically) have fantasy races. I highly enjoyed those stories.</blockquote>