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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8698246" data-attributes="member: 6801228">That's fair, but if you make them too alien, it becomes too much of a hurdle to play them. Take the Kenku. I've never seen a player actually commit to their mimicry talk and never having an original idea. Playing Kenku like that makes them completely alien, but it is so difficult most players abandon it. I know I had one person who tried very hard, it was a play by post game, and they were writing down in a seperate channel all of the things their Kenku heard, so they could pull from that list and type only those sentences... and they stopped after a couple of months which might have translated into 3 or 4 sessions. This isn't to say I disagree with you, I think you've hit the gnomish culture on the head, and the fact that they have developed this strong sense of community and caring for each other as a way to counteract their impulses to bury themselves in their work til they starve or to create something truly horrible, but it must be a balancing act or else no one is going to bother engaging with how the race &quot;should&quot; act.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8698246, member: 6801228"] That's fair, but if you make them too alien, it becomes too much of a hurdle to play them. Take the Kenku. I've never seen a player actually commit to their mimicry talk and never having an original idea. Playing Kenku like that makes them completely alien, but it is so difficult most players abandon it. I know I had one person who tried very hard, it was a play by post game, and they were writing down in a seperate channel all of the things their Kenku heard, so they could pull from that list and type only those sentences... and they stopped after a couple of months which might have translated into 3 or 4 sessions. This isn't to say I disagree with you, I think you've hit the gnomish culture on the head, and the fact that they have developed this strong sense of community and caring for each other as a way to counteract their impulses to bury themselves in their work til they starve or to create something truly horrible, but it must be a balancing act or else no one is going to bother engaging with how the race "should" act. [/QUOTE]

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