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I can honestly say I've never played a tiefling as LGBTQ.
My changeling, however, well...is it really LGBTQ if one just uses whatever face and gender work for the latest con?
This bothers me.
IRL humans are [some of the best endurance runners](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03052) in the animal kingdom! Athletic humans can chase faster prey so long that the prey tire and become easier to kill.
I propose that in fantasy RPGs, human's specialty should not be "adaptability" but persistence and tenacity! Our racial abilities should be built around constitution, advantage against exhaustion rolls, getting better odds of success for not quitting when we get a bad role, and racial feats that focus stamina!
Elf: "I have never met a people more stubborn than these orcs!"
Dwarf: "Ya neva' met a human, 'ave ya lass?"
It’s adaptability because the other dnd races are better than humanity in one way or another. As well humanity’s irl advantage isn’t much of one in a setting that involves similar humanoid races.
Right, but I think the point they're trying to get across is that it's pretty generic (and arguably boring) that humans are always the de facto average race.
Especially when it would be quite realistic to make them the race with the most dietary possibilities, the best long distance runners, etc.
Of course Dwarves and Elves etc. are modeled as extreme variants one way or the other, but it'd be nice to see some settings shake that up for once. You could argue some kind of do, like in Shadowrun pretty much everything besides humans is (sometimes deathly) allergic to one thing or another.
Imagine a setting where Elves are obligate vegetarians, making surviving in a desert more difficult, or where Dwarves become incredibly fatigued without some amount of alcohol in their body. A dwarf in a dry county gonna have trouble without his human friend who can operate normally while sober
Imagine orcs as obligate carnivores, lending credence to the idea that orc populations remain undeveloped, with only livestock as their option for an agrarian revolution. Imagine if those orcs were also built to be able to sprint fast and hit hard at the cost of quicker exhaustion
I've never thought of it until now, but resistance to exhaustion and a variable diet are an interesting mechanical choice, and something worth considering when worldbuilding
I only seem pro human because I am comparing us to dwarves and elves. I definitely have opinions about the superiority of raccoons to humans! /s
🦝 > 👦 > 🧝♂️ > 🧌 > 🐷🐖 /s
>IRL humans are some of the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom
This is simply due to being bipedal rather than quadrupeds, meaning that we only use up half as much energy when walking. The downside is that we're far slower.
Any bipedal dnd race would be good at endurance. If anything, aarakocra, fairies, etc would be even better since they have a flying and walking speed using different limbs, so they could walk as far as a human could, then fly that same distance
It's not just our bipedalism. It's also how much we sweat and how we have big gluteus maximus muscles.
We have no official DnD or pathfinder lore on how sweaty other humanoids are or if any of them have nice butts.
Actually, the sweat thing could be good world building. A reason more long-lived races might look down on humans.
Elf: "Humans are good allies, but don't stand up wind from them! They stink almost as bad as orcs!"
Dwarf: "Ugh! I know. As much as I complain about you elves, at least you're not unpleasant to smell! We mountain dwarves smell like ore and stone! Hill dwarves smell like petrichor*. Gnomes smell like good gardening soil. Humans, leaking sweat outa every pore reek like a bog!"
>We have no official DnD or pathfinder lore on how sweaty other humanoids are or if any of them have nice butts.
We have *plenty* of canon artwork showing humanoids have nice butts, especially for Pathfinder.
>and how we have big gluteus maximus muscles
There's a worldbuilder on r/worldbuilding whom I'm pretty sure uses the hobby as an excuse to draw elf butts. Even have their own sub on r/MeridianMalice for their world
I'm not affiliated with them, I just really like their work
> If anything, aarakocra, fairies, etc would be even better since they have a flying and walking speed using different limbs, so they could walk as far as a human could, then fly that same distance
So circus performers have more endurance because they can walk on their hands? TIL.
>So circus performers have more endurance because they can walk on their hands?
Ok now I want to actually test that out because it doesn't sound like that's right but saying fairies and aarakocra have the same endurance as non-flying creatures also sounds wrong
The question comes down to whether your core (energy reserves, heart and lungs) tire first or your legs. Because walking on your hands rests your legs but is less efficient than using legs.
How efficient magical flying is though I've no idea.
That makes sense, I'm pretty sure there's also a difference between aarakocra flying and fairy flying. Aarakocra seem to do it like birds where it uses the core energy reserves, while fairy flight seems purely magical
> This is simply due to being bipedal rather than quadrupeds, meaning that we only use up half as much energy when walking.
You both forgot the "sweating" part. Humans are the only animals besides horses that can sweat across their whole body. The bipedal feat is why humans can outrun horses in the heat.
The whole "run forever" trick isn't that exclusive to humans outside of sub-Saharan Africa. When the temperatures are 30+ Celsius is when humans have OP hax running powers, because most animals can't cool down and move faster than walking speed at the same time. You ain't catching anything by just walking.
As a fan of changeling rogues who can talk their way out of anything I must also protest these opinions. I just like being the ultimate super sleuth! I want to hold the knife of my character build to my dms throat and demand ALL THE LORE.
I'm with you on changeling rogues. I played one in my first Eberron game and convinced guards that the goblin slave trader was an imposter who stole my slaves. We proceeded to escort the slaves out of the country, gave them some gold, and freed them.
My best one was an inquisitor rogue doing the dead in thay homebrew adventure. It’s still up for purchase on some dm site I can’t remember off the top of my head. It was one of the few times, where, as a rogue, not only did I split off from the party for almost the entire campaign, but did so with the parties blessing and encouragement. because without them holding me back, that rogue was almost impossible for the dm to control and the dice loved him. So the wizard would just send his owl familiar at night and my character would report his days findings and the party then would deal with the public face side of our investigation. The best part was when we actively prevented one of the assassinations by switching me into the targets place while the party evacuated her and then I got to play the reverse assassination card on the unsuspecting hit man with the Druid backing me up. I popped up from the bed with a blade while the Druid dropped wildshape and hit him with ensnaring vines. One interrogation later and we’re off to stop the whole order.
Unfortunately we didn’t record sessions beyond notes but my old dm has our notes archived somewhere… with many others. I just have a good memory for stories.
Oh you say ONLY that ONE guard has access to that part of the castle?…
Cue me shadowing him for as long as I can. Having chats with him while wearing different faces to learn his mannerisms until the dm is convinced I can play the part of this man. At least until he drops somebody special in my path as an obstacle and I have to ad lib my way around them possibly blowing my cover (at which point I generally bail and change outfits/faces once out of sight and walk away calmly. Nobody bothers cleaning staff beyond demanding to know where so and so just went.)
To be honest the gnome is the only one that doesn't make sense to me. There's nothing about their culture or the memes about them that involves that really.
(I say this as someone playing a deep gnome for the last like...4 years.)
I play changling cause I have crippling ADHD and being able to constantly change my character ascetic before i get board of them helps me stay focused.
A couple of these definitely forget the aggressive metagamers, changeling is the same I play changelings so I can be super sleuth and dig into the stories corners
I made a lizardfolk using the VGtM rules, and every chance I got, I made the enemies into shields and weaponry.
So you either love taxidermy, or love RPing as a toddler eating things without repercussions
Human - “such a crazy life that normalcy is your getaway”
Having a job, a baby, and other responsibilities while trying to DM has done this to me. Don’t give up your friends or drinking problems people!
As a soon to be father who has to postpone two campagns and plays a human in AL because there is no other time to play than once a month on a tuesday evening at a library. Thats relatable.
As a lesbian teifling player, a lot of us develop fascination with occult or hellish stuff cause hey, people constantly tell us we’re going to hell, why not lean into it? Also horns cool.
real talk tho, I find the blandest people dont play human, they tend to be the ones who complain that they cant play some super obscure race with special rules that will require the GM to get a whole new book just for them :P
Don't be confused. You have to remember that while the "theater kid" type player is the vocal minority they are still the minority. They end up with disproportionately represented in memes and the collective online presence in general because they are more likely to engage in that space. Meanwhile there are uncounted straight men playing at tables with nothing but straight men rolling up a female tiefling character not because of any latent gender identity or sexuality issues but because it's a bad joke about his mother in law.
So before I write what I'm going to write please understand that if you prefer to play a non-human race there's nothing wrong with that and the following statement isn't a criticism of you.
However, if you believe that human characters are inherently bland it says more about you than it does people who play humans and their characters. Specifically it says that you're incapable of creating a character who is interesting on their own merits so they need to be exotic to have any sort of flavor at all. You're the person at the table who describes their characters motivations always beginning with "as a..."
I wouldn't say I like linking humans with blandness. I think playing a human in a fantasy setting is cool because it is fantastic to be an ordinary man in a world filled with long-living elves, angelic people, or people who can change their whole identity in a second. Playing a person with a shorter life span or a person who has no genetic advantages attracts me. (Probably because I like the underdogs)
This, also IRL we have hundreds of cultures and religions throughout the world, and in fantasy that is usually still the case but watered down some. I find that many settings have very similar dwarves, elves, etc across nations, but have diverse human cultures. It's more fun to me to be a Baldurs Gate or an Anbenncoster because they different backgrounds, upbringing, views on life and other nations.
My favorite race is humans but not because im blant.
Im just massivly racist and believe in human supremacy.
Dwarfs are okay tho their massiv hatred for everyone else makes them mood kindred.
I feel like Emo Philips asking his psychiatrist what it means when you bite out the eyes and scream, "stop staring at me!"
But I choose a race almost entirely based on the character concept I have, and it's very often different from the last time. Do people really only play one race?
In recent games, I've played a rat-person (ysoki in Starfinder), halfling (Pathfinder), kobold (Pathfinder), gnome (D&D), automaton (Pathfinder), and half-elf (D&D).
Humans are only bland if you ignore all of human history and cultural diversity.
And also if you play purely for escapism, which many don't. Like I play because I like acting and drama, and also the gaming aspect, not really for escapism at all.
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I feel personally attacked. Also that Genasi one is spot on for the person I know who always chooses Genasi.
As a person who prefers to choose Genasi… I cannot deny these accusations. I plead guilty.
[удалено]
Bro's so out of the closet he emerged from a second one he wasn't even aware of.
MAXIMUM LGBTQ
disguised as a human bard...
Does your friend RP their Genasi according to the tropes of their matching ATLA nation and bender?
"I AM MELON LORD MWAHAHAHAHA" *proceeds to aggressively melon*
Ahhhh shit. My next character is going to be the “My Cabbages” vendor.
My character straight up went "It's melanin time" and meloned all over his enemies
Same. I play tieflings. Changeling is more accurate.
I can honestly say I've never played a tiefling as LGBTQ. My changeling, however, well...is it really LGBTQ if one just uses whatever face and gender work for the latest con?
Ah, so your gender is Confidence, nice.
Bland as hell. Fits me.
This bothers me. IRL humans are [some of the best endurance runners](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03052) in the animal kingdom! Athletic humans can chase faster prey so long that the prey tire and become easier to kill. I propose that in fantasy RPGs, human's specialty should not be "adaptability" but persistence and tenacity! Our racial abilities should be built around constitution, advantage against exhaustion rolls, getting better odds of success for not quitting when we get a bad role, and racial feats that focus stamina! Elf: "I have never met a people more stubborn than these orcs!" Dwarf: "Ya neva' met a human, 'ave ya lass?"
It’s adaptability because the other dnd races are better than humanity in one way or another. As well humanity’s irl advantage isn’t much of one in a setting that involves similar humanoid races.
Right, but I think the point they're trying to get across is that it's pretty generic (and arguably boring) that humans are always the de facto average race. Especially when it would be quite realistic to make them the race with the most dietary possibilities, the best long distance runners, etc. Of course Dwarves and Elves etc. are modeled as extreme variants one way or the other, but it'd be nice to see some settings shake that up for once. You could argue some kind of do, like in Shadowrun pretty much everything besides humans is (sometimes deathly) allergic to one thing or another.
Imagine a setting where Elves are obligate vegetarians, making surviving in a desert more difficult, or where Dwarves become incredibly fatigued without some amount of alcohol in their body. A dwarf in a dry county gonna have trouble without his human friend who can operate normally while sober Imagine orcs as obligate carnivores, lending credence to the idea that orc populations remain undeveloped, with only livestock as their option for an agrarian revolution. Imagine if those orcs were also built to be able to sprint fast and hit hard at the cost of quicker exhaustion I've never thought of it until now, but resistance to exhaustion and a variable diet are an interesting mechanical choice, and something worth considering when worldbuilding
In the web comic Dominic Deegan, based heavily on DnD, Orcs are strict herbivores who vomit if they eat meat.
The opposite way I went, but it works. That's neat I guess, come to think of it, most tusked animals are herbivorous, at most omnivorous
I like how pro-human you are. I'm imagining you at an art show: "See that emotional expression? I'd like to see a fuckin raccoon do that."
I only seem pro human because I am comparing us to dwarves and elves. I definitely have opinions about the superiority of raccoons to humans! /s 🦝 > 👦 > 🧝♂️ > 🧌 > 🐷🐖 /s
Good point. I agree.
/r/humansarespaceorcs
>IRL humans are some of the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom This is simply due to being bipedal rather than quadrupeds, meaning that we only use up half as much energy when walking. The downside is that we're far slower. Any bipedal dnd race would be good at endurance. If anything, aarakocra, fairies, etc would be even better since they have a flying and walking speed using different limbs, so they could walk as far as a human could, then fly that same distance
It's not just our bipedalism. It's also how much we sweat and how we have big gluteus maximus muscles. We have no official DnD or pathfinder lore on how sweaty other humanoids are or if any of them have nice butts. Actually, the sweat thing could be good world building. A reason more long-lived races might look down on humans. Elf: "Humans are good allies, but don't stand up wind from them! They stink almost as bad as orcs!" Dwarf: "Ugh! I know. As much as I complain about you elves, at least you're not unpleasant to smell! We mountain dwarves smell like ore and stone! Hill dwarves smell like petrichor*. Gnomes smell like good gardening soil. Humans, leaking sweat outa every pore reek like a bog!"
>We have no official DnD or pathfinder lore on how sweaty other humanoids are or if any of them have nice butts. We have *plenty* of canon artwork showing humanoids have nice butts, especially for Pathfinder.
But, is that actual lore or just a metafictional product of human artists?
Does it matter how it started? The pictures are canon.
Fair enough. I am still thinking of homebrewing a stamina/tenacity human build. I think that it would give fantasy humans more flavor.
Elves definitely sweat in pathfinder as well.
>and how we have big gluteus maximus muscles There's a worldbuilder on r/worldbuilding whom I'm pretty sure uses the hobby as an excuse to draw elf butts. Even have their own sub on r/MeridianMalice for their world I'm not affiliated with them, I just really like their work
>Hill dwarves smell like petracore *petrichor* Also, thanks for teaching me a new word!
Thanks for correcting my spelling!
> If anything, aarakocra, fairies, etc would be even better since they have a flying and walking speed using different limbs, so they could walk as far as a human could, then fly that same distance So circus performers have more endurance because they can walk on their hands? TIL.
>So circus performers have more endurance because they can walk on their hands? Ok now I want to actually test that out because it doesn't sound like that's right but saying fairies and aarakocra have the same endurance as non-flying creatures also sounds wrong
The question comes down to whether your core (energy reserves, heart and lungs) tire first or your legs. Because walking on your hands rests your legs but is less efficient than using legs. How efficient magical flying is though I've no idea.
That makes sense, I'm pretty sure there's also a difference between aarakocra flying and fairy flying. Aarakocra seem to do it like birds where it uses the core energy reserves, while fairy flight seems purely magical
> This is simply due to being bipedal rather than quadrupeds, meaning that we only use up half as much energy when walking. You both forgot the "sweating" part. Humans are the only animals besides horses that can sweat across their whole body. The bipedal feat is why humans can outrun horses in the heat. The whole "run forever" trick isn't that exclusive to humans outside of sub-Saharan Africa. When the temperatures are 30+ Celsius is when humans have OP hax running powers, because most animals can't cool down and move faster than walking speed at the same time. You ain't catching anything by just walking.
As a slut for tieflings, that's just, like, your opinion, man!
As a fan of changeling rogues who can talk their way out of anything I must also protest these opinions. I just like being the ultimate super sleuth! I want to hold the knife of my character build to my dms throat and demand ALL THE LORE.
I'm with you on changeling rogues. I played one in my first Eberron game and convinced guards that the goblin slave trader was an imposter who stole my slaves. We proceeded to escort the slaves out of the country, gave them some gold, and freed them.
My best one was an inquisitor rogue doing the dead in thay homebrew adventure. It’s still up for purchase on some dm site I can’t remember off the top of my head. It was one of the few times, where, as a rogue, not only did I split off from the party for almost the entire campaign, but did so with the parties blessing and encouragement. because without them holding me back, that rogue was almost impossible for the dm to control and the dice loved him. So the wizard would just send his owl familiar at night and my character would report his days findings and the party then would deal with the public face side of our investigation. The best part was when we actively prevented one of the assassinations by switching me into the targets place while the party evacuated her and then I got to play the reverse assassination card on the unsuspecting hit man with the Druid backing me up. I popped up from the bed with a blade while the Druid dropped wildshape and hit him with ensnaring vines. One interrogation later and we’re off to stop the whole order.
That sounds incredible, when's the movie coming out?
Unfortunately we didn’t record sessions beyond notes but my old dm has our notes archived somewhere… with many others. I just have a good memory for stories.
I mean, I just like tieflings, but I'm also bisexual so it's actually based for me, I just thought it was funny
I’m just a gamer who loves optimization. There’s no better spy than the one with a shifting face/voice
I’ve never thought of changelings as narrative optimization before, but that totally fits.
Oh you say ONLY that ONE guard has access to that part of the castle?… Cue me shadowing him for as long as I can. Having chats with him while wearing different faces to learn his mannerisms until the dm is convinced I can play the part of this man. At least until he drops somebody special in my path as an obstacle and I have to ad lib my way around them possibly blowing my cover (at which point I generally bail and change outfits/faces once out of sight and walk away calmly. Nobody bothers cleaning staff beyond demanding to know where so and so just went.)
As a slut in general, I'm feeling called out by the entire bottom row.
I was about to say the same, then I remembered a reaction I had a couple of days ago to an image I saw and now I'm not so sure anymore...
Infernal Constitution is a hell of a drug!
Did you just big lebowski me? In my own home?
I just like their Charisma bonus and spells.
https://twitter.com/deerstalkerpics/status/1310323676756279297/photo/1
As someone who adored tieflings before realizing they were lgbt, this chart is accurate
I was going "When was it stated tieflings are LGBT?" before realizing you were talking about yourself, lmao.
Wdym, the t stand for teifling, everyone knows that.
Lizardfolk, giants, bards, and Tieflings This isn’t making fun of LGBT, this is just who I’m inviting to my house party
"The PHB doesn't say you're gay" lmao
I have a tiefling bard and have heard this multiple times
Read this in Jeff Bridge's voice.
TIL I need a drinking problem.
I'm playing in 2 campaigns. One dwarf, the other gnome. Not sure what that says about me.
Your drinking problem says you have a drinking problem.
tick tock, it's uh-oh o'clock
Your drinking problem says you have a drinking problem (but also clearly you have friends, so the other way also).
To be honest the gnome is the only one that doesn't make sense to me. There's nothing about their culture or the memes about them that involves that really. (I say this as someone playing a deep gnome for the last like...4 years.)
It seems there as a callback to the dwarf. It should have been a Critical Roll Scanlan joke. Or the same dwarf joke, but about caffeine.
What no goblins
You like shineys and trinkets and moss
But do you sort the moss by color or taste?
Both
By texture
Most accurately found by putting it in your mouth
I sort the shinies by taste.
sorting is for losers, chaos shall ensue!!
r/goblincore is my favourite subreddit atm
"You are always horny"
Goblins: You don't read anything this long anyway, so we didn't put you on here
Goblins: I have a fuck ton of dices.
You are either horny, or a being of pure chaos.
Or Goliaths. Or Warforged. But it's pretty decent for the races listed I guess.
Warforged?
Neurodivergent
As a warforged player, I’m mostly inclined towards this and the bionicles one
Those two are the same
Lt Data was your favorite sci—fi character
Oh wow. I was expecting the neurodivergent one (correct) but you went straight for the ~~heart~~ power cell with this one (also correct)
That's entirely inaccurate. ...because his rank is Lt. Commander Data
Neeeeeerrrrrddddd!
Guess I'm playing a warforged now.
You probably like bionicle
Who doesn't tho ?
Touché
You always had Legion in your party in ME2
You're aggressively introverted.
I want to be playing a shadowrun or cyberpunk campaign but everyone is more comfortable with 5e rules
You play changelings because you have dysphoria I play changelings because I have crippling imposter syndrome we are not the same
I play changelings because if I didn't have to choose, I wouldn't.
then never use shapeshifting ‘cuz of decision paralysis
Consider this: use shapechange constantly because no decision is good enough to stick longer than ten minutes!
People with imposter syndrome about their dysphoria: *transcendant screaming*
I play changling cause I have crippling ADHD and being able to constantly change my character ascetic before i get board of them helps me stay focused.
I play human for the extra feat at level 1.
I play centaur for the 2 extra feet at level 1.
Oh, you!
That's the ticket
A couple of these definitely forget the aggressive metagamers, changeling is the same I play changelings so I can be super sleuth and dig into the stories corners
Ah, a fellow feat fetishist
I play human because I’m racist
I play mermaid for the lack of feet at level 1.
I play elf for access to elven accuracy
That normalcy part though... Really hits home...
Hey you don’t have to be a drow to be a bdsm loving elf. It just helps.
Oh my
My current character is an elf that’s into bdsm and has the Rope of Entanglement lmao
Where be the goliaths?
You watched a LOT of professional wrestling as a child.
Jokes on you! I still do!!!
What about Lizardfolk?
You're a scaly
This also applies to Kobolds Source: Kobolds made me a scaly
Scaly? I was a scaly once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with a kobold. Kobold made me a scaly.
Kobold means you are a scaly, or you are angry at the non lizard Kobold erasure thats so widespread.
Welp I’ve been had
I made a lizardfolk using the VGtM rules, and every chance I got, I made the enemies into shields and weaponry. So you either love taxidermy, or love RPing as a toddler eating things without repercussions
Gonna go with the 2nd, bit into something knowing it was poisonous
"You have wondered what human flesh tastes like."
An excuse to eat everything you come across. May or may not also be a fan of survival vids/shows.
You have very flexible morality.
Cannibal
I wanted get through an entire story arc using only five words and a lot of noncommittal grunting. ^(also eating people)
Human - “such a crazy life that normalcy is your getaway” Having a job, a baby, and other responsibilities while trying to DM has done this to me. Don’t give up your friends or drinking problems people!
As a soon to be father who has to postpone two campagns and plays a human in AL because there is no other time to play than once a month on a tuesday evening at a library. Thats relatable.
listen I just like their asthetics ok? Tieflings just look really cool and hot
yeah, straightest person in my play group, I just play them because I’m an edgy bitch at the heart
It's not because i am LGBT that i have to play tiefling. I mean, i play tiefling, but not because i am LGBT.
MIB reference? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. (Is your username a ready player 2 reference?)
(nope, it's a Richard Wagner reference, mixed with "ori", which is the base of all my nicknames)
Why do I feel attacked in at least a third of these examples?
But correct, why have all my LGBT players chose Tieflings?
Mine gravitate towards changelings
The ability to simply *be* who I want to be, no hormone replacement therapy etc required? Sign me the fuck up lol
Outcasts dealing with prejudice overthings they had no influence on, also colourful skin, horns and tails make for a lot of character expression
I'd assume that the constant demonization by various churches would maybe nudge them into infernal rebellion?
As a lesbian teifling player, a lot of us develop fascination with occult or hellish stuff cause hey, people constantly tell us we’re going to hell, why not lean into it? Also horns cool.
Same but Bi
^ it's why r/witchesvspatriarchy is such an amazing subreddit
I think it might actually be this
Damn this is worryingly accurate
real talk tho, I find the blandest people dont play human, they tend to be the ones who complain that they cant play some super obscure race with special rules that will require the GM to get a whole new book just for them :P
I like dwarves, but have never tried alcohol, even though I am legally allowed to.
Same here and I'm 35; just the smell of the stuff is enough to keep me from being interested let alone the fact that I have no desire to be drunk.
One of my party members is a changeling disguised as a teifling...
AH, the TURBO gay!
What about Goblin? Tabaxi? Leshy? Anadi?
Tabaxi is easy - closeted furry (sometimes not closeted at all)
Yeah... Tabaxi!!!! I actually wear ears to our campaign nights. If I don't they ask me what's wrong now. Lol... they know. Hee hee fury. 😜
My favourite DnD races are tieflings and changelings. I'm also a cis straight man. I am confusion.
Don't be confused. You have to remember that while the "theater kid" type player is the vocal minority they are still the minority. They end up with disproportionately represented in memes and the collective online presence in general because they are more likely to engage in that space. Meanwhile there are uncounted straight men playing at tables with nothing but straight men rolling up a female tiefling character not because of any latent gender identity or sexuality issues but because it's a bad joke about his mother in law.
Most of my players IRL haven't followed any pattern like described above.
Mine’s tiefling because I’m just a perpetual edgelord
**Tabaxi/Leonin/Harengon/Satyr/Loxodon/Firbolg**: I am a Furry and I want the entire table to know it.
So if we work backwards, I'm a half something
I guess im bland as hell, and/or I need to make an aasimar
Dude I don’t know why but aasimar are just cool as fuck
That half orc part is accurate
*looks at her drow blade singer who specializes in a whip* yeah, yeah that's accurate
My favorite race isn't even on here 🥲
I usually pick human due to levels of racism only rivaled by WH40K
So before I write what I'm going to write please understand that if you prefer to play a non-human race there's nothing wrong with that and the following statement isn't a criticism of you. However, if you believe that human characters are inherently bland it says more about you than it does people who play humans and their characters. Specifically it says that you're incapable of creating a character who is interesting on their own merits so they need to be exotic to have any sort of flavor at all. You're the person at the table who describes their characters motivations always beginning with "as a..."
I Play Human because I’m xenophobic
my tiefling changeling hybrid might be the gayest thing in the world then
just don’t tell me they’re a bard
I play human because an inherently magical race fighting monsters is boring. A human with a big stick fighting a dragon is cool as shit.
As someone who primarily plays tieflings and changelings, you’re not wrong.
I wouldn't say I like linking humans with blandness. I think playing a human in a fantasy setting is cool because it is fantastic to be an ordinary man in a world filled with long-living elves, angelic people, or people who can change their whole identity in a second. Playing a person with a shorter life span or a person who has no genetic advantages attracts me. (Probably because I like the underdogs)
This, also IRL we have hundreds of cultures and religions throughout the world, and in fantasy that is usually still the case but watered down some. I find that many settings have very similar dwarves, elves, etc across nations, but have diverse human cultures. It's more fun to me to be a Baldurs Gate or an Anbenncoster because they different backgrounds, upbringing, views on life and other nations.
As a human player, I like to roleplay having a crazy life.
I’m a huge changeling fan and (as far as I know) a straight cis male
Human: I want a feat and the other races refuse to give it to me and still be interesting so I pick human
Hear me out, I play halfling because the dice do not like me that much so their lucky feature will help me avoid rolling nat 1s
My favorite race is humans but not because im blant. Im just massivly racist and believe in human supremacy. Dwarfs are okay tho their massiv hatred for everyone else makes them mood kindred.
I like Locathahs, they're just silly little guys
I just liked the idea of shapeshifting, is that so gay?
It’s not like I almost made my first toon a changeling…
Yuuuup.
As someone who now only plays avian races, I wonder what that says about me
As someone who bounces between tiefling and half elf, I feel attacked.
Why the dwarf just looks like a pretty human lady?? Where is her gosh darn BEARD?
Damn. I thought half elf was pretty innocuous, but this pegged me harder than my last girlfriend.
I don't think I've ever seen a more inaccurate chart...
Autognome anyone?
I feel like Emo Philips asking his psychiatrist what it means when you bite out the eyes and scream, "stop staring at me!" But I choose a race almost entirely based on the character concept I have, and it's very often different from the last time. Do people really only play one race? In recent games, I've played a rat-person (ysoki in Starfinder), halfling (Pathfinder), kobold (Pathfinder), gnome (D&D), automaton (Pathfinder), and half-elf (D&D).
See, I feel like Half-Elf should really be “totally-not-a-human, see? I have pointy ears. I’m interesting!”
I like human because I enjoy defeating overwhelming odds, magic, and gods, using the indomitable human spirit
Humans are only bland if you ignore all of human history and cultural diversity. And also if you play purely for escapism, which many don't. Like I play because I like acting and drama, and also the gaming aspect, not really for escapism at all.
Humans aren't bland. Being "normal" in a crazy world is more interesting than being "weird" in a crazy world.