Humans

Robb Graves said:
I do not think humans should be given any new benefits. no makeup = a huge benefit.
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I know, that's why I like playing a gypsy. No makeup = huge benefit. Plus, cool benefit: Gypsy Curse.
Or, you know, a barbarian. No makeup = huge benefit. Plus, cool benefits: bonus body, resist element, resist fear.
 
heheheheh yeah....but humans don't even have to wear hot clothes or special clothes...technically anything you were wearing to the ren faires before you got into LARPing will do! haheheheheheh
 
you can wear the lighthouse clothing as long as you're not speaking in a funny accent... which begs the question. What if a player from Romania is playing a flamboyant human?
 
so....yeah.....I think it takes a really good actor to play a human...i mean if i played a human it would just be................me ...with cooler clothes and weapons ya know?
 
Tzydl Zhitelava said:
so....yeah.....I think it takes a really good actor to play a human...i mean if i played a human it would just be................me ...with cooler clothes and weapons ya know?
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I agree. I find it very challenging not to just be myself reacting to a troll attack. I am taking this year to really work hard on finding who my character is and being him at events rather than just me in wizard garb.
 
well the NPC i played at caldaria last year was a human and ended up just ....being....me.... I mean it seriously was just me in neater clothes and i knew then and there that i would always have to play another race in order to keep a character
 
Well 99% of people's first characters (if not second and third) are just them in different clothing. I don't notice that much of a character change when people are either in or out of makeup.
 
Marcena is my first character. I know what you mean by a lot of people who play are just themselves in different clothing. I've had to catch myself playing a pacifistic, naive, and gentle character. Like when a thief was captured, Jesse was like: "Yeah! Bite his freaking head off!" but Marcena is "Nye! Nye! Show mercy!" It gets tempting, especially when there are things that you would like to do that you know your character wouldn't DREAM of doing.
 
My human -
Rather conservative old salt who believes people get what they deserve, has extreme racial and national prejudices, and is a retired sergeant in the Military. He has anger management issues and will act to the defense of the town and anyone in trouble, even when it means he himself will be taking a hard hit to do so.

Me -
Pretty liberal and would hate my character if he were a real person.
 
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE too funny!!! i'm sorry person there who thinks we have covered this already i just post wherever we're at i forget about this "threadjacking" bit that's a my bad...
 
doverman said:
My human -
Rather conservative old salt who believes people get what they deserve, has extreme racial and national prejudices, and is a retired sergeant in the Military. He has anger management issues and will act to the defense of the town and anyone in trouble, even when it means he himself will be taking a hard hit to do so.

Me -
Pretty liberal and would hate my character if he were a real person.
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What I see most people do is either do somethings opposite of themselves or exaggerate some trait or other that they already have.
 
squeegee said:
Just wondering didn't we already have this talk on the previous boards? Didn't it go just like this?
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There are really only 5-10 different topics for threads on the boards.

There's the one where people complain that their class isn't any good.

There's the one where people ask inane questions.

There's the one where people want to know why some rule is the way it is and not some other way that they think would be better, but aren't really interested in discussing it.

There's a couple other ones.

Then there is the thread that turns into a thread talking about how there is really only 5-10 topics for threads on the boards.

And then there is the horrible off-topic ones.

Please note, most of these threads eventually turn out to be about Star Wars, as defined in the Third Haswell Law.
 
Tossing my two cents in here...
Has anybody contemplated the gift of being normal?
That's what you get when you play a human character.

When will people learn that character benefits can't all be about math.
Differences in social interaction have a HUGE impact in a role-playing environment.
As a human, you are granted the gift of ambiguity in the midst of more narrowly defined roles.

In many fantasy worlds, the human race is the the most populace and diverse among the "fairer" races.
This can give you many unseen benefits beyond simple adjustments to your character sheet.
Since humans can be found in nearly all settled lands, they are a known entity in EVERY culture.

Through their wide geographical range, large population and open association with other races, they have been established as the common denominator.
A human will rarely seem strange or out of place in civilized lands. Humans encounter fewer problems with stereotypes and prejudice than other races.
Due to their lack of racial unity, the allegiance of any one human can be hard to determine.

The world views you as a normal, neutral entity. This is the perfect environment for deception.
Without realizing it, the other races share a sort of "trust" in their relationship towards the human race.
This is a HUGE benefit that can be enjoyed or manipulated as you see fit.

One of my favorite things to do in fiction is to expand upon the nuts and bolts of the world.
Exploring the potential beyond the surface of the obvious. I especially enjoy contemplating races, relations, and "Applied Magic".
Thus ends my first rant on a new board. There are more to come, and you'll all soon learn to recognize me merely by my posting style.

I could go on further about humans, but they do require SOME sleep.
 
Something has to be the "default" race that the others are based on.

Humans are the free-est race. No one can ever say to you that you will lose your racial abilities because you aren't playing the race properly. No one will ever criticize you for not acting human enough. And no human elders will ever come in and give you a hard time for not joining in on that weekend's "human" plot.

Some players like it that way. We should offer that to them.

If you want cool abilities, roleplaying restrictions, and racial plot, it's pretty clear: DON'T PLAY A HUMAN.

I seriously don't quite understand people who complain about not having human abilities and human plot. Well, no one forced to you play a human, did they? If you want abilities and plot, there are a number of other races out there for you. (And trust me, if you try to do "human plot" some player will complain, saying "Hey, I played a human to avoid these kinds of things.")
 
We kind of have some "human plot" in my home chapter. But really only b/c most of the town is human and if you are in a certain family.
 
strangely enough most of the big bad guys i've ever seen were one human (ie: now undead human) are human now, or elf....i can honestly say i've never seen an orc or ogre big baddy heheheh
 
I think a lot of it has to do with prep time and adequate phys reps for an orc or ogre. There's been a shortage of them at the chapters I've been to.
 
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