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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8185036" data-attributes="member: 18">Re racial traits, yeah it's true a lot won't be of use "most days", but that's true for most races. I don't really agree that players particularly pick races with reliably-useful racial traits. I think ones that are more rarely used but conceptually-cool also tend to draw players.Also, in my experience, most players, even min-maxers, tend to take a "cool first" approach to PC creation, which is they won't select a race they don't think is cool, and if they think one is super-cool, they'll ignore drawbacks to select it. Serious min-maxers may hesitate at this, but unless their entire build requires a specific race (i.e. Savage Attacks, or that elf triple-advantage nonsense), they still often take races primarily on the cool value.Appearance-wise, I'm quite sure it's intentionally not stated because it could vary a huge amount, and that allows the player and DM to decide on what the PC looks like. I think fan art will likewise vary pretty wildly. I mean, we all know what fan-artists are like, so fan-depictions are likely to lean towards "cute" and "anime", rather than anything interesting or daring, but there's really nothing limited them to that.Re: supernatural romance, I doubt it. More likely just more Ravenloft.</blockquote>