D&D General Why do you play non-human races?

[Oofta]

I have exceptional players. If you don't set the bar high, you're enabling slackness.

Do you give out college credits? Are you an accredited institution? Because it seems like handing out grades with a possible certification would be the only accepted way to measure apptitude in correctly role playing a fictional character of a fictional race.

 

[Khelon Testudo]

I play mostly non-humans. Often because of the stats, but also: playing a human that isn't me is seriously hard. Playing a tortle allows me to be different, but largely by speaking v e r y slowly, and sinking to the bottom of any body of water.

 

[Mecheon]

I play gnomes. Because someone's gotta give gnomes some love

 

[MGibster]

I play gnomes. Because someone's gotta give gnomes some love

Everyone deserves love. But Gnomes gotta pay!

 

[MarkB]

I tend to first pick what class I'm going to play, with a view to what I'm interested in playing and how they'll fit into the rest of the party, and then pick a race to fit the class.

Not because I view races as interchangeable bags of stats and abilities, but because coming up with a backstory and worldview for a particular character concept is something I've never found difficult - so I'm generally just as happy to flesh out those details afterwards, rather than beginning from them.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I'm already a human, live it every day. Getting to pretend to be someone else who is different is the whole point of D&D (at least to me).

 

[StormbringerAUS]

Fun

 

[steeldragons]

Very simple.

I'm a human every day.

In a fantasy world of magic and heroics, I really don't see a need to be what I am every day.

 

[Fenris-77]

I have exceptional players. If you don't set the bar high, you're enabling slackness.

Huh, really. I was talking about roleplaying in general, not any particular set of players or specific campaigns my own or otherwise. Feel free to provide even a hint of evidence for that strongly worded declarative statement though. I'd accept specific references to any game I've run with any group of players. Have at it sir, I eagerly await your intense and well supported disapprobation of my GMing.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Huh, really. I was talking about roleplaying in general, not any particular set of players or specific campaigns my own or otherwise. Feel free to provide even a hint of evidence for that strongly worded declarative statement though. I'd accept specific references to any game I've run with any group of players. Have at it sir, I eagerly await your intense and well supported disapprobation of my GMing.

Well, your shortcoming is that you think everything is about you, when clearly the standard that the universe is measured against is obviously me.