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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5906016">Alright lets put it this way.Some people want to play tree-loving folks with pointy ears for no other reason than the fact that they love trees and pointy ears.Some people want to play scaly dragon-people for no other reason than they think that's cool.While I disagree with Morrus's feelings about 4e writing as I feel he is taking from an incredibly limited selection of the text, the fault here is not 4e's.  All 4e has done by creating these bullet points for races and classes is acknowledged the different reasons people may want to play that race.  These reasons existed long before they were made into bullet-points and listed in the 4e PHB.Some people have always liked to play elves for no other reason than they like pointy ears.  Some people have always liked to play dwarves because they love the "fat beared drunk" stereotype.  Some people have always liked to play halflings because they like the idea of a character who is not an adventurer by nature but is perhaps too curious for their own good.Some folks play humans because they want to play an idealized representation of themselves in the game world, and be a hero where they cannot be one in real life.Some folks just like scales.  4e acknowledged that there are different reasons that people play different classes.  Some of them are deep, some of them aren't.  We can't honestly expect people to only play races on the basis of some deep psychological attachment to the concept.Some folks just like dragons.  Given that this is Dungeons and Dragons, nobody should find that the least bit surprising, especially not the fact that some folks want to find a way to play one.</blockquote>

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