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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4949213" data-attributes="member: 5143">No, it's nothing like that.  Humans and Half-Elves are separated only by pointy ears and a couple small other physical differences depending on the edition.  They are about as close as 2 different humans are.I agree that someone should have spent 30 seconds when people met them to say "I have pointy ears", but other than physical differences, I see no reason to mention it again.  If people weren't listening, and they decided to ask later "You're a half-elf?", then really that's their fault.I call in gaming.  In the same way I don't begrudge someone for using a get out of jail free card in a Monopoly game instead of serving his time for the full duration like a proper "roleplayer" would do, I don't begrudge people making good decisions in the game of D&D.Also, it's been said before, but you CAN'T Roleplay during character creation.  You don't have a character yet, so you can't decide anything from his point of view.  You don't look at your character sheet and ask yourself "What race would a blank character sheet be if it had the choice?".  You instead say "What class do I feel like playing?  What race would go well with that choice of class?"  That's a normal part of playing the game.  Playing a Half-Elf Bard in 4e is simply a good choice.  I'm certainly not going to claim that a player should have been Human instead because they had no reason other than mechanical ones to choose Half-Elf.  Rather, it's the other way around, they had no reason at all to play a Human.I think that's a problem with the players involved.  I don't assume anyone is human.  If I haven't had any hints as to someone's race, I just assume that they could be ANY race.  If anything, I assume they are one of the races that has the best stats for their class.  After all...why wouldn't they?I think sometimes the roleplaying simply doesn't focus on that.  We've had campaigns where we met each other in a situation where we had to immediately jump into action because there was a battle underway.  We gave a brief description of ourselves, but didn't have time to talk.  We then found out that there were a bunch of people kidnapped in the battle and immediately decided to go look for them.  We were on a deadline, no time to chit-chat about whose ears were longer, who liked beer, whose clothes didn't fit, or who had elven jewelry.  We'd then get caught up on quest after quest, always in a rush.  Sometimes it wouldn't be until session 5 or 6 when I'd know someone's race.  No big deal.  It's just one part of their character.</blockquote>

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