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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 217164" data-attributes="member: 1049">Well, I've been a humans-only fan since way back when.  The mood settled in after I realized that the demihumans would be hard for humans like us to get properly into the heads of, while most of the demihuman players I knew were just in it for the powers or panache.  Plus I'm the player who'll play something weaker just to be "different", and I was aware that humans were the exception in most games I played.That said, I see a few reasons for demihuman fans to play them primarily, and sadly "because I want to make a well done creature with an alien mindset" tends not to be one of them.  (I suppose there are people out there who can pull it off, but it requires a high level of concentration and work, and most gamers I know of aren't into gaming as psychotherapy or art.)  Some people like the cool powers attached, and others like the image that comes with it.  (Let's face it, elves and the like are just plain cooler than plain old mundane humans.  And players are usually intent on playing the coolest hero they can cobble together, granted that different players have different ideas of "cool".)  And sometimes there's just the thrill of having a new toy, when a new race or class comes out, and people want to play it just to do something different than the basic 13 classes, 7 races.  Demihumans are different and have more of a baseline to work with or against in roleplaying style, and are just another tool in the minmaxers toolbox.</blockquote>

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