Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4955796" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, people asked nicely, so I'll keep playing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Nope.  I believe I stated this repeatedly.  I KNOW I stated repeatedly that you do not have to make race a defining element.Nope.  However, I do think they are worse role players.  If person A portrays all aspects of his character and person B portrays only a subset of the aspects, Person A is a better role player.  How can he not be?Being a better role player has nothing to do with fun or being a "good gamer".  I can easily say that Actor A is better than Actor B but, that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy Actor B's movies.  There are great actors and there are good actors and there are bad actors.  I've enjoyed movies with all three types.  In the same way, I can enjoy a hack and slash, kick in the door game as much as the next guy.  However, I'm not about to pass that off as a great role playing session.So, according to you, I could change Luke Skywalker to Lucy Skywalker, change none of the dialogue in the rest of the movie, change none of the scenes, and it should make absolutely no difference in the movie?  Or, perhaps in the new Sherlock Holmes movie, Watson could be played by Nicole Kidman and it would be exactly the same story?Or, we could have Morgan Freeman's character in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves be played by a white actor and it would make no difference to that story?  After all, you're claiming that there are absolutely no differences in gender or race, therefore we should be able to swap out any actor in any role and tell exactly the same story and no one would notice.Well, let's use the podcast as a specific example.  Wil Wheaton added the eladrin character.  So, right there, there's your in.  "Oh, you're an eladrin.  My mother told me many stories of the Eladrin homeland.  I'd love to see it sometime."They went to a bar - "Do you have any ((Insert elven sounding wine here))?"Most people of mixed heritages are curious about their heritages to some degree.  Show a bit of curiousity once in a while and that cements in everyone's head that you are half-elven.You could certainly reverse it as well.  If your half-elf was raised mostly elven, have him ask about human stuff.</blockquote>

Verification