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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8026936" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, but the attitude towards the game is rarely reflected in talking about their character if they aren't playing something unusual.And, I agree with most of your points, but I'd like to direct you back to your own post I was referring to, which demonstrated none of that nuance. It instead added to the list of "why people play non-standard characters" a list which then reads (as a summary)The idea I've been pushing back against this entire thread though is that that entire list, every problem people have with "oddball races" not only has nothing to do with the race, but could equally apply to any race the player chooses.But they are almost always exclusively talked about in the context of the race. Which I think is unfair, because it paints this perception that a person who wants to play something different than the big four is more than likely trying to be a problem, instead of just wanting to play a character.See, I'm barely even talking about the DM in this discussion. One poster earlier said that "if even a single player's suspension of disbelief" was ruined by an odd-ball concept that that race should not be allowed at the table for that game.And I think the other players opinions here do matter, because if I come to a CoS game with my Tabaxi Monster Hunter, and the DM is cool with it, but half the table is hostile because they think I A) Don't care about the "sanctity of Barovia" or B) Am a min-maxing power gamer or C) Am trying to be a spotlight hog who wants to make the game all about me... then I'm going to have less fun.And with how the accusations get phrased on this forum about "how they better not be trying something like that in my game" there really seems to be a deep suspicion that is likely to fall on anyone who isn't toeing the fantasy line.</blockquote>

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