Admit that picking human is an admission of a lack of creativity.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, shill.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How is it a shill? Human is the single most boring race that can be picked in any setting, because how are you even supposed to roleplay as some random Chad when for most of us we can't relate at all to them.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        organic reply

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Human is the single most boring race
        If it is it's only because you made it so 🙂

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        KYS, anti human. You will never be not a human.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >some random Chad when for most of us we can't relate at all to them
        How do you relate to the other options more? Are you a dwarf IRL?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Shill
      What game are they even shilling for you absolute dipshit?

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Humans are dope

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      t. human

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        humanbros, we have been found out

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Literally me
      Am hooman

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just pick dwarves cuz I'm a manlet irl so this is a power trip for me

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You guys ever eat your boogers?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Every day

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They come out like wet roof shingles

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's a hobby

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Never stopped

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    its an admission of a lack of creativity to just play a fantasy world someone else created and not make your own that abides by your own rules.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This kind of thinking only leads to an endless deluge of
      >Erm well ackshually in my universe dwarves are made out of tree bark and subsist on boiled birdshit

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >galka in ffxi
    >roegadin in ffxiv
    >tauren in wow
    i always pick the most bara looking rae

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    why would I want to play as my slaves?

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >if you don't pick an oc donut steele you lack imagination
    said the creatively bankrupt social media poster moron who only adopts whatever current thing is

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >we implemented a diverse set of character customization options so you can truly be who YOU want to be!
    >make white male protag
    >NO NO NO NO NOT LIKE THAT NOOOO YOU FRICKING CIS SCUM BIGOT REEEEEEEEEEE

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Larian has never recovered for getting genuinely mad over that.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They'll never recover from bear yaoi either.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Picking a flashy race with baked in quirks isn't really a big show of creativity either.
    A human character can manage to be just as interesting as a tumblr oc, which isn't much of an high bar

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I always pick the most evil looking race, and if they all look clean and good I pick human.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Human
    >Human, green
    >Human, short
    >Human + funny ears

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >new to game
    >human is the baseline race
    >not sure how the systems in the game so you aren't sure what build to make
    >all the races are either reskin or resized humans anyway
    picking human is the introductory class. other varients are just for a 2nd run

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    But I want to be a Paladin and last I checked, which was 1986, they don't let unholy hellspawns and other manner of inferior races be Paladins.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >But I want to be a Paladin and last I checked, which was 1986, they don't let unholy hellspawns and other manner of inferior races be Paladins.
      Correct, nothing's changed, only human lawful goods can be paladins.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >But I want to be a Paladin and last I checked, which was 1986, they don't let unholy hellspawns and other manner of inferior races be Paladins.
      Correct, nothing's changed, only human lawful goods can be paladins.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Half-elves have been able to be paladins since like forever, and there's no race more unholy than that one.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >fantasy game
    >every non-human race is just a recolored human
    Everytime

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you are not able to make a Human interesting then you do not deserve any other race.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, I think self-inserting in RPGs is super gay, but you don't have to play humans that way and that seems to be what both pro and anti human posters are talking about.
      So many "humans are boring" people just make exotic race characters that are just as boring and uncreative as generic self-inserts, except with a tendency to be even bigger spotlight-hogs.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        People who play the race, not a character, cannot understand how humans can be interesting as they make yet another "quirky" kenku or firbolg.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick white male because I want to imagine myself as a genocidal white colonial maniac pillaging indigenous peoples.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i like genasi type races that are just humans with weird elemental aesthetics, like a dude with volcanic cracks in igneous rock looking skin. only NWN2 has them as far as I know and the customization options aren't that grand.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No it’s based.
    Humans are the most out there and creative as well as versatile race.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    HUMAN PRIMACY

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >human
    no creativity

    >human with sharp ears
    >short bearded human
    >green human
    AWOOOOGA

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you aren't picking human it's because they have made all the races you can pick already human with some quirk. And this is why fantasy is shit. It's not fantasy, it's just humans with different shapes.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I enjoy settings where elves and dwarfs and such are truly alien to humans and their thinking and morals are pretty foreign.
      Like if you are an ancient race that lives for hundreds of years that might be on the brink of extinction might change a lot of things (and a different lineage from humans to boot.)
      D&D is the worst in this where they are humans with sharp ears.

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Human bad
    >Human with longer ears good

    Maybe the problem is that the different races of humans are just skin colours not actual races, or that they don't set another world culture as the default for humans instead of medieval western european

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The people who think picking human is boring are the types who make fricking tumblr-tier TT characters like a half-elf half-dryad Lawful Evil Ranger with heterochromia (actual example from a person I've had at my table) and their personalities don't go beyond the vague identity of their race-class combo.

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nooo you have to pick my unique and original human-with-animal-trait race otherwise you're BORING and LOOK THE SAME

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Im a human guy
    Wanna play as a human guy
    simple as

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because humans in fantasy settings have the best RP oppurtunities and the best self insert. They make the best imperalists/genocidal/lawful/divine justice/Barb etc characters. What do you RP as a elf? A homosexual mage or archer? Dwarf? A craftsman/warrior? Thiefling? A rogue or discount demon/succubus because the game doesn't let you play as them?

    Most games have so many gameplay restrictions that they never do any of these other races justice or make them truly unique. They're literally humans with different stats. Frick that.

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Elves protagonists are boring, they only work as villains, anti-villains, and foils. And as an autist, I'm too self-aware to go Dwarf. So, what, pick a gimmick OC race with +5 to Dex, -3 to Con, -3 to Int, enhanced night vision and communal shit-eating?

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I choose to interpret this image in the context of a fantasy setting where all those men are polymorphed into hot young black women.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        a better world

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    alien thread

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who cares?

    >white
    >human
    >male
    >broadsword
    >real first and last name
    GAMING time, Black person

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      hair color, eye color? address?

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Picks an oh-so-creative nonhuman race
    >Proceeds to roleplay as a human with a handful of stereotypical surface-level traits, none of which drastically interfere with the character's ability to seamlessly integrate into a human-centric society
    >9/10 times the nonhuman race is some dimensionless monoculture with nothing even close to the richness of history and diversity of the real world human race, because aesthetics are inevitably the top priority in its design
    >Even if you're trying to immerse in something truly unique and alien to humankind, you'll still be drawing constant comparisons to humanity to validate the differences as interesting.

    Here's a fun experiment when you're making your next "creative" D&D character or whatever: describe everything about your character without mentioning their race or appearance to anyone, and see if they can guess that you're not a human. If not, you might as well (and should) be playing a human instead.

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick human because nothing beats a free feat.

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Special snowflake morons who think anyone gives a frick about their garbage DnD OC's gay backstory. Meanwhile humanchads just make themselves ingame or close to it.

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I roleplay as a Christian earth-boy isekai-ed into the setting in all my games, which is possibly the most creative choice you can possibly make relative to conventional fantasy settings

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >FFXIV adopts Ivalice
    >Only the human wearing bunny headband race is playable
    I hate SE so fricking much

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I only play human when there's romance, because I want to self-insert. Other than that I usually play orc.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >pro skub
      >147 is the luckiest number
      how did you do that?

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If the other races are humans with colored skin or irrelevant animal parts then it's all the same regardless.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      why are physical attributes what matter to you most for roleplaying? Humans with different coloured skin or irrelevant animal parts probably come from completely different cultures within the setting.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Humans with different coloured skin or irrelevant animal parts probably come from completely different cultures within the setting.
        They literally never do, though. Because having actually different cultures and behaviors for the different races requires
        A: more investment into rulebooks and lore books which creates a barrier to entry for new cash cows
        B: risk putting the players at odds with each other which goes against the nu-audiences goals of safe low-investment wish fulfillment
        C: would require acknowledging that cultures are not morally or ethically equal which is directly against the globohomosexual political narrative. See the "evil races are inherently bad writing" cope.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >they literally never do
          so you haven't played RPGs then?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I don't play trashcan WRPGs if that's what you're asking.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              well at least you admit you just pulled everything you said out of your ass

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm talking about the tabletop scene which is where all the modern dogshit WRPGs I'm passing up are drawing their inspiration from. That should have been obvious given that I'm clearly talking about fricking rulebooks and party play.
                I am horribly sorry that basic reading comprehension is above your abilities.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I assumed you meant you only played shit like Goblin Slayer. Or well, didn't play, just wished you played.
                Even in official D&D settings races come from different cultures, and if you don't know about basic D&D shit I can't imagine you know much about less popular RPGs.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Even in official D&D settings races come from different cultures
                Just saying things doesn't make it true. WotC are the progenitors of the Fantasy Californian Metropolis approach to writing and worldbuilding.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >halflings and drow come from interchangeable cultures, the only difference between them is one is short humans and one is dark-skinned, pointy eared humans
                I mean, if the players at your table play like that, that's on them. That's not how it's actually written.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The WotC rulebooks and secondary media all tacitly or openly approve of modern Western liberal treatment of fantasy races and subsidize freakshit enthusiasts and dangerhairs. Good for you if your table has insulated itself from that but you need to stop being willfully ignorant of the larger cultural trends of the hobby (or pretending to be because you also tacitly approve of it).

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Now you're talking about different shit. Yeah I think that stuff is stupid. WotC is definitely pandering to those types. However that doesn't change the fact that the settings that they're using still have different cultures for the different races, and if you're harping on about how they're all the same apart from minor physical traits you sound more like the dangerhairs you're complaining about.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >openly approve of modern Western liberal treatment of fantasy races
                Didn't they ban all concepts of slavery in dnd recently? Kek.

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >humans are all the same
    No one cares about your anti-individual shit. Go back with all the collectivist morons.

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    As the single least creative person in all of.... people. I always pick a half-elf mage with high int, moderate dex, and tanked str which I get around with various mechanics to artificially enhance my ability to hoard useless crap.

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >humans
    >fully fleshed out, detailed and intricate race that the player has the experience with to craft a truly unique individual
    >freakshit race
    >narrow human ethnic group stereotype + 1 or 2 freakish biological malformities

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like how all the freakshow races are completely accepted everywhere they go. It's truly the globohomosexual homogeneity utopia.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My homie they rewrote basic rules and fluff text for DnD 5e to make it as globohomosexual as possible.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >play an orc
      >hate orcs and want to impose a secret police style military to keep them in line
      >DM won't let me
      this life is so fricked up man

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    every single time I make a non-human character it feels wrong. The only time I've ever been ok with it was in Morrowind and Oblivion. I occasionally play as an Orc.no, I'm not black

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Orcs are based in TES. You'd have something to worry about if you were playing a beast race or like, Bosmer.

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because every race is a different colored human or a human with different ears. If I'm going to be forced to be boring I might as well go all out

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every fantasy story with a non-human pov but with humans in the setting is absolute kino

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Depends. Humans sometimes have the most build options so its more creative playing their race than the others

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
    Humans are ordained stewards of creation, anyone who wouldn't play as them is choosing to play as an inherently lesser being and should be treated as such.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea
      Gee I wonder who the bad guy is

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >you have to treat termites and pigs like people or you're evil

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Stop trying to put words in my mouth homosexual
          You don't have to give them citizenship but you don't have to shove firecrackers in their ass either

  50. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe writers should stop ripping off Tolkien first

  51. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    At this point I'm picking Human Male because of spite.

  52. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >killing monsters with op fantasy race abilities
    Boring
    >killing monsters with human ingenuity
    Based

  53. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Human usually is the uncreative choice. Too many settings just make them generic humans who have no culture or really anything that makes humans human. Settings that actually put in the effort to make humans interesting I will always pick humans. LOTRO and Total War: Warhammer I always roll human. Warcraft I will pick literally anything else.

  54. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Fantasy game
    >Human
    >Human but short
    >Human but super short
    >Human with pointy ears + other variants
    >Human but [insert colour here]
    >Human but [insert animal part here]
    >Mutt
    Truly pinnacle of creativity

  55. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >choose other race
    >other race's representatives act like caricatures and have no personality beyond the basic traits of their species
    yawn

  56. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who is the libertarian of races?

  57. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick a white human male, because i love the fact that im a white human male, whats so hard to understand?

  58. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every fantasy race is just human with a quirk
    If you think picking something else makes you interesting you're just a boring person using it as a crutch

  59. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on how humans fit in. If they are, for example, 0 magic but have the best tech and I roll an engineer, I'd rather be human. If it's an archer who is stealthy, I'd rather be an elf.

  60. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Race: Human
    >Sex: Female
    >Class: Priest
    >Body Type: Soft, but womanly, so her modest fat is distributed to enhance her feminine form.
    Time for gaming!

  61. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >humans are jack of all, master of none because everything is written by humans
    what would humans be like if any other space/fantasy race was to write humans?

  62. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he wouldnt frick a lizard woman
      What a homosexual

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        nope, that's for furries

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          That homie has zero understanding on Lizardman lore in Divinity

  63. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  64. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't want to larp as some other race but pretend to be a cooler fantasy version of myself.

  65. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    everyone knows elves are the white man’s choicd

  66. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not a tumblrtroony, but yes. And it always has been. Go play something else if you're not picking fantasy races you normalgays.

  67. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Modern WoW of Warcraft is a terrible game with almost no redeeming qualities. But, I will admit that WoW's race choices were top notch (at least up until Blizzard became a diversity program).

  68. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've never picked a human in any game ever unless it is the only option. If there is no other options and a character creator I try to morph it into a green goblin with long ears.

  69. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The fantastical is made more spectacular when it's encountered by an everyman.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ok G.K Chesterton why don't you tell us all about how the most heroic miracle you can witness is watching a couple deal with a shitting toddler.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're illiterate

  70. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why does the way other people play a game bother you?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Why does the way other people play a game bother you?
      this is the source of all drama regarding role playing games. you'll never solve it.

  71. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, youre still in a fantasy world surrounded by weirdness and can shoot magic out of your eyes. Playing as human is nothing to ashamed of, now stop being triggered for being called out on it.

  72. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Game gives variety of races
    >Only Human feels unique somehow

  73. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >having to use the crutch of predesigned fantastical races to compensate for your lack of creativity

  74. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    playable nonhuman races in games are literally always just a human culture with funny ears and skin color. the truly 'nonhuman' races are the unplayable antagonists

  75. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I WILL choose the human. He WILL be a paladin. He WILL kill non-humans on sight.

  76. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I want a fantasy game where human isn't even an option
    The Legend of Zelda

  77. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    humans are the master race
    and when i refer to humans i DO NOT include subhumans such as darkies

  78. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I'm so creative because i clicked the Black person option in the character creator

  79. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hyped for when China does no-humans but casts regular Americans as "Orcs"

  80. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >People making the new Baldurs Gate get mad if you make a white, male protagonist
    I still can't believe that was a thing

  81. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Humans are based and that's why I play games that let me play as humans and slaughter elves, demons, undead, and other freakshit. WE ARE SIGMAR'S HEIRS!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      GUNS

      OF

      N U L N

  82. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For 90% of people who play RPGs the most outlandish and unrealistic thing they can imagine is “what if I wasn’t lame” and that’s the character they make.

  83. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care, I'm not a D&D nerd that knows the lore of non-human races but humans are easy to roleplay in anything.

  84. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can self insert to a gay bear.

  85. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick human when my choices look like this:
    >human
    >half-human
    >half-human
    >half-sized human
    >half-sized human

  86. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The constrast between the relative normalcy of the player character and the fantastic World he is exploring makes it far more interesting.

  87. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Elves are snooty, Dwarves are dirty, Zords are smelly.

    Humans are the best.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Elves are snooty,
      and yet they're bawds for humans apparently with all the half-elves. So, they're not really snooty.

  88. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If playing as a girl makes you a troon, what does it mean when you play as a non-human?

  89. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want a game where I can play as cute little bunny people

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      rabbids!

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I specifically said cute.

  90. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    There's nothing creative about picking a non-human race. What a moronic notion.

  91. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Able to make a human cuter or hotter than any knife ear, basic b***h demon or manlet
    >Free feat
    I would rather play as a scaly or tiny-sized freakshit like a fairy or harengon

  92. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >playing as male = homosexual
    >playing as female = troony
    >playing as human = NPC
    >playing as non-human = snowflake

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >playing

  93. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick humans in single player RPGs.

    I pick weird ass races in MMOs or multiplayer games.

  94. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone can defeat the demon king, whether you are a dwarf, elf or normal.

  95. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pick anything but the redguards

  96. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >he doesn't play both
    It's always nice to have options. Only people I have issue with are the ones that have to play something pretty.

  97. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >creativity
    And what exactly are you "creating" by beep-booping down to one of the other options and pressing Enter?
    The developers created all of it, not you.

  98. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The real lack of creativity is acting like a character can't be interesting and engaging if he isn't some colorful race. Actual skin deep characterisation

  99. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Undead >> robot/golem > tieflings/demons > humans > anthros >>>>>>>> dwarves >>> elves
    I have never played as a dwarf or an elf, and I don't intend to change that.

  100. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >character: human, white, male, knight
    >gamer word filter: OFF
    yep, it's gaming time

  101. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you can probably count the differences, in your racial choice when playing the game, on one hand.

    it's just cosmetic.

  102. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fantasy races are just world building for your hero journey as human

  103. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Romance options = I self-insert
    No romance options = I play a sexy girl

    Shrimple as.

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