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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7869232" data-attributes="member: 6704184">In addition to those, sometimes the place in the world of a given race simply appeals to me or allows me to explore something that I wouldn’t be as close to as a human. For instance, my gnome rogue/wizard is a swordmaster trained in an art from before the fall of the great northern kingdom of winter fey. He also lives on the mountain where they ruled from, and his family line traces back to that kingdom and some of the heroes from the war that ended it. His backstory involves a lich  who came to the mountain for power, and a friendship with a clan of Goliaths in the high mountain. Because my character is a gnome, his home town is higher in the mountain than the humans live in this region, his blood is tied to the ancient kingdom (a humans wouldn’t be, they’d be a relative newcomer to the region), he has a deeper cultural knowledge about the Demon War as it relates to the north, his Blade Song is tied to that ancient sword art (basically the Magical/Spanish/Thibault’s Circle with actual magic) that his uncle taught him, etc. He’s part of the setting, his gnomish history is tied into his personal story and the campaign’s main villain, and I get to explore this whole culture and history. While some of that would be possible with a human, in order to have that history element he’d have to be from a very different place with a very different culture. Finally, sometimes a race has themes that intersect with something I’d like to explore with the distance allowed by roleplaying a character who is kinda like me, but also very not.</blockquote>

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