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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6493196" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yup.  I consider a character played to the point where the other players at the table have NO IDEA what the species of the character is, to be poor role play.  Simply chucking up "badrwongfun" and brushing it off is fine.  Obviously, this is something you don't care about.  Fair enough.  I DO.  I care about this.  It bugs the heck out of me and, when I actually get to play, i'm very, very careful to lead by example.  It's fantastic that you haven't run into this.  I certainly have, and more than once.  Like I said earlier, it was a particular issue with elves since, in 1e and 2e, elves were the munchkin race.  It tended to go hand in hand.Look, there's nothing wrong with playing against type, so long as there is a type to play against.  If I picked up a random Drizz't novel, and read three chapters, I would still know, by the end of three chapters that he was a drow elf.  Yes, a different drow than normal, but, still a drow.  If I sit down at your table and, after watching an entire session, have no idea what the species of Bob's character is, I consider that to be poor role play.  Certainly not something to encourage.  It would bother me and, AFAIC, drag down the entire table.  It would actively hurt my fun.  So, yeah, I'm going to speak up against players ignoring species.  Why is Bob's character a dwarf if being a dwarf is never, EVER referenced at the table?</blockquote>

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