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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4937267" data-attributes="member: 22779">I disagree.  I think I can pretty easily say that.How can a character's race not be relevant?Really.  How can it not have ever come up?  Isn't a character's species about as relevant as its gender and, at the very least, general appearance?Again, if I was writing a novel and, three or four chapters in, suddenly sprang on the reader, "Oh hey, by the way, so and so isn't really human, he can see in the dark.  He's a half elf." that would be piss poor writing.  Unless there was a specific reason why it wasn't mentioned, this should, at the very least, get a smidgeon of screen time.  At least enough to establish a picture of the character.Essentially, by not establishing the character's species, the player has made little to no effort to portray his character as it actually exists in the game.  The other players have no idea what you actually are.  Their mental image of the character is wrong, not through any fault of their own, but because they were not provided with some pretty relevant information.There is a great deal of space between Chris Rock style rants on how the Man is Keeping Him Down and Fytor Goodwithswords.  You don't need to carry a sandwich board proclaiming the character's species every single time you turn around.  However, a bit of effort, at least once in a while, just to provide the other players with enough information to have an accurate mental picture of your character is hardly, IMO, too much to ask.</blockquote>

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