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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4966446" data-attributes="member: 22779">No, Inyssius, I'm saying you're not roleplaying the character that's on the sheet.  IOW, you aren't roleplaying as well as you could be.If you could replace the race of your character with any other race, you've failed to portray a pretty basic element of your character.  Or, to put it another way, announce at the table next week that your character is an Eladrin and see what reaction you get.If everyone nods, and says, "Well of course, that's what I always thought" then you are doing a great job of portraying an eladrin.  If everyone looks at you blankly and says, "What?  You're an eladrin?  Since when?" then you did a very poor job of portraying an eladrin.Please, everyone keeps expanding this beyond my original point.  I don't care how well you portray the rest of your character.  It could be great, it could be bad, that's not what I'm talking about.  I'm confining this to the race of your character.  And, please answer the question - how much of my character sheet can I ignore before I'm no longer roleplaying?  You misread that to mean that I'm accusing you of something.  I'm not.  I'm trying to show a point.If I can ignore race, gender, and apparently appearance without changing the character and still be considered to be roleplaying well (note the well part of that), how much else can I ignore?  Alignment?  (well, in 4e you might)  Class?  Religion?  Ability scores?How far does it go?  Race is like the first thing you choose about your character in pretty much every edition of D&D.  It's the first section after abilities.  Doesn't that mean that race is at least as important as anything else on your character sheet?Or, at least important enough that it deserves to be mentioned once every three or four sessions for 30 seconds?  Important enough that everyone else at the teble should know what it is?For the last time, Do you need to make this a defining characteristic of your character?  NO, absolutely not.  I NEVER said that, although people have ascribed it to me enough times that I understand why other might make that mistake.It is, IMO, however, a characteristic of your character and, as such, deserves a minimum of air time to establish at the table.  That's all.  I'm NOT claiming anything more than that.  Just that it should be established in the minds of the other players so that no one is surprised when it is brought up in play.  That's all.Anything beyond that is entirely up to you.</blockquote>

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