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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6493049" data-attributes="member: 22779">KD, I get what you're saying, and I largely agree, but, (and you knew the but was coming) it's certainly not unheard of for players to play races just for the bonuses.  For a long time, I LOATHED elves for exactly this reason.  Every single elf character I saw was basically just a human who could wear armour while casting spells.  The worst thing, for me, is when another player at the table turns to the player and says, "You're an elf?  Really?  Oh, yeah, I forgot that."  To me, that's a complete fail by the elf player to portray a character.  The fact that the character isn't human should be the first or second thing someone thinks when they think about your character, not the fifteenth.  I mean, look at genre fiction where you have non-human characters.  The fact that Leggylass and Gimli aren't human is a BIG DEAL.  Stepping a bit sideways to Star Trek, you have characters like Spock, and Worf.  No one would think of those characters and not immediately think about their race (as in species <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).  On and on and on.  Playing a non-human should be a big deal.  It should be something that comes out in how you play that character.  If I were to observe an entire gaming session at your table, and I couldn't guess that your character was non-human, then I do believe that you're doing it wrong.</blockquote>

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