Race choice March 31, 2008
Posted by chorenn in Other.3 comments
Hi there! Yes, I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been working a bit on a couple of articles (three, to be exact), and then I got hit by a cold last week, so none of it got done. I thought, though, I might elicit some opinions about something I’ve been thinking about for a while, that has nothing to do with my campaign.
I am creating a new character for my husband’s campaign, which is a simple, mostly combat-oriented, very little role-playing dungeon crawl and monster bash. I happen to be creating a wizard, and I’ve decided to make an Ultimate Magus (from Complete Mage), with wizard and beguiler as the base classes.
One thing I’ve found, when creating characters, that if there is no roleplay/backstory restriction on my race, I tend to choose human, mostly for that extra feat (and secondarily the extra skill points). So far, in the last few years, I’ve created a cleric, a rogue/cleric/pious templar (my favorite character, though she didn’t live long), and now this mage, and they’re all human. I had an elven rogue/archer, but the race was chosen for roleplay purposes, and a half-elven barbarian, but if I had to make her again, I’d make her human. (Actually, I have no idea why I made her half-elven. I had to twist her backstory around very awkwardly to make it fit; human was what she should have been.)
I know that other races have their benefits, but so many of them can be obtained through other means. It’s tough to get more skill points or feats, and with new feats being introduced with every book, humans just seem so much better.
Maybe if I ever created a really good heavy fighter with all the bonus fighter feats (or a Warblade, with all the nifty maneuvers and stances), I might consider some other race. I’d love to hear what people think about other races and why they choose them — not counting roleplay reasons, of course.
