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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8375380" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Whereas for me, I prefer to take the tack of doing what I can to support players in finding (or developing) the uniqueness of each thing, if it's warranted, or demonstrating that it isn't that unique.For example, I have among other characters a Tiefling Bard and a Half-Orc Ranger as players in my Dungeon World game. (Well, the Ranger is currently on a personal-leave hiatus, but I'll use the character as an example anyway.) For the former, we've come to realize that...for the most part, being a tiefling isn't really much different from being a normal human in this world. Sure, they exist, and occasionally they get some flak, but the vast majority of people understand that this is literally just the body a person was born with (most of the time) and that it's what they do that matters, not whether they have skin that isn't a shade of brown or whether they happen to have a tail. But we've also learned that this character in specific, separate from pretty much all other tieflings (except his two brothers), has some Real Weird genealogy stuff going on on his dad's side, and that his succubus great-grandma (direct maternal-line ancestor) is genuinely good and has reformed and that this is another Big Deal in-universe.By comparison, the Ranger is very specifically dealing with his people being a little bit different. Most orcs and half-orcs live in the Nomad Tribes (who are not barbarians--that's people who don't share the common fundamental culture of the Tarrakhuna), and thus don't tend to reside in cities. But his clan matriarch--his paternal grandmother--has chosen to bring her people into the city, spending the great wealth she had earned earlier in her life to advance her people's welfare and cement them a better life within the city. This has not been entirely popular with their tribe, and the Ranger is pulled between two worlds, with the ambition and cunning to try for the even-greater third option: make his own city. (He also has some special bloodline stuff going on, but that's not directly related in this case.)</blockquote>

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