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Have you played a human not of (the equivalent of) your race in a /tg/ game? I feel like most human PCs end up being white, probably for comfort zone reasons.
Yeah, I'm slav and I played white characters before. Hell, I sometimes pretend to be white even in real life.
>>46689750
Yeah, I love middle eastern names so a few of my characters have had that persuasion and my next character is probably gonna be a dark skinned tech specialist of some kind.am brown Mexican American
>>46689750
Yes. My psion Vishal was a South-East Asian guy.
I'm black and I've played as white and Asian guys before.
>>46689750
Almost all of my characters are white but not Anglo (like myself). Usually I don't have much room to be anything else though, as my perma-DM set everything in the real world equivalent of northern Europe.
I have played one east asian character, although he was a joke character for a one shot, essentially just being a spoof of anime tropes.
>>46689750
I feel like most human PCs end up being white, either because nobody cares as much while orcs and dwarves and shit are running around, or you just imagine that they're white because the player hasn't said anything and you're a racist asshole.
Yes, i've done a lot of different ethnicity characters, some as over-the-top stereotypes, some as well, characters, with just a certain ethnicity chosen almost at random for variety.
All in all it adds something i feel. Doesn't have to be much, but it keeps the imagery new.
>>46689855
I forgot but I also had an arabic character that I really liked, however that was with a different DM who used a weird mostly home brew system that was way too rules light, bordering on free roleplaying, and only ever had one session.
This is actually quite an interesting question but from a different standpoint. Assuming you're playing in a "generic" fantasy world, how would you go around with implementing human races that are not from real-world stock? What other possible venues are there to explore outside of white, black, asian/mongoloid, arab, indian etc.?
>>46689895
Ever read Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa?
>>46689861
Assuming people are like yourself is not 'racist' unless you are one of those people who seems determined to make the word useless.
>>46689895
I've considered doing this but it's a bitch to come up with art for such things if you aren't an artist yourself.
I would just make "default" characteristics into a world jumble at random, and follow the pattern of people getting darker in places with more sunlight/lighter in places with less sunlight.
>>46689750
>I feel like most human PCs end up being white, probably for comfort zone reasons.
If the majority of the humans in given setting are white, how the fuck you are expecting from majority of players to play with anything else? Dunno, ever heard about confirmation bias?
Average RPG setting is Not!Europe in some point of Not!medieval populated by white folks. And you are amazed people are playing as white.
Let me guess - it's amazing that everyone is playing Feng Shui as Chinese, right? So fucking surprising!
My gf also rolled up a blonde haired blue eyed thicc black girl in my DH campaignwhich is my fetish
>>46689750
playing as a slav everytime so I can drive my group insane with the shitties slav accents when in character.
>>46689750
I've played all of two DnD games in my life.
In one of them I played a slavshit paladin, so I suppose that counts.
Yeah, I've played black, Latino, and Asian. Sometimes it's important to the character (e.g., playing a black druid from fantasy Africa, very different culturally,) and sometimes it's not.
White people are exotic to me, ok
My characters usually end up nonspecific, for a number of reasons which mostly boil down to it not being an important part of the character or setting.Which of course means they're white by default. :^)
>>46689949
>Non-Slav
>Playing as Slav
You must make a really, really shitty character, fueled by convoluted mess of sterotypes
>>46689750
I've played a fremen ripoff in pretty much every setting that has been put in front of me.
>>46690006
Ivan, please
>>46689934
No one said there was anything wrong with playing white characters, calm the fuck down. You are participating in the grand 4chan tradition of rage-shitting your pants about things that are just in your head.
>>46690006
This
Jesus, there is nothing more annoying than having to play with people that are trying to pull Ethnicity N, when you/most of the team are from Ethnicity N.
I'm still having shakes after having to deal with "Norse" as played by Italian.
>>46690029
I'm Dutch, but whatever. I've got enough problems with people trying to be "trifty Dutch merchant/sailor" in obligatory wooden clogs already, I don't need no Ivan Petrovich bullshit to that.
Why is it wrong for me to play a white character? I am white. Would it be better if I pretended to be a minority? Why is that somehow more acceptable to you than just being my own ethnicity? Get your head on straight, there is no reason for anyone to be ashamed of their ethnicity, even white people you poor brainwashed sap.
>>46690031
And I never claimed any of that, you fucking shithead. My point is simple - if majority of NPCs are X, then the fucking PCs will be also part of X.
And this thread treats such obvious corelation as some fucking epiphany
>>46690089
>Butt-hurt American spotted
This thread is not about right or wrong, you idiot. Stop acting like everything is some sort of SJW conspiracy.
>>46689934
[TRIGGERED]
I'm a SEA guy who has played an east asian guy and a dead white guy, does that count?
>>46690089
He's just asking a question? The OP's statement contains no actual fucking judgement one way or another concerning ethnicity and playing a character of a given ethnicity aside from assuming most people here are white, which is reasonable.
Jesus, quit jumping at boogeymen. This is some fucking pavlov shit.
>>46690086
Is the 12yo pussy as good and wet as my chinese drawings told me, Bart ?
>OP acts like race is some kind of big deal
>gets butthurt when people act like he's a SJW piece of shit
I don't know what I expected.
>>46690106
>And this thread treats such obvious corelation as some fucking epiphany
Once again: rage-shitting your pants over things no one said.
Most people play white characters in white settings because that's their comfort zone. That is obvious. Everyone knows that. It does not need to be discussed any further. The question, the point of the thread, is have you ever played anything else?
>>46690160
Except he didn't at all, the people calling him an SJW are making a mountain out of mole hill.
>Have you played a human not of (the equivalent of) your race in a /tg/ game? I feel like most human PCs end up being white, probably for comfort zone reasons.
Please tell me where the value/moral judgement here is?
>>46690160
OP did not act like race was a big deal. OP made no judgements whatsoever.
It's kind of interesting how many people felt like a totally neutral question was an attack on whiteness.
>What color shirts do you like to wear? Ever wear a red shirt?
>OH SO THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH WHITE? SJW SJW SJW
>>46690086
Look, I'm just tired of all my PCs adopting thick southern or Boston accents. I don't need a gang of inbred fucks trying to start fights because the merchant thinks they look smat in those glasses or a party member is being Mr. Tough guy
>>46690232
>OP did not act like race was a big deal.
He asked about it. That implies it's a big deal.
>>46690233
Sounds like a fun campaign, really.
>OP asks an innocent question
>People get Tumblr-tier triggered at it
You guys became what you hate the most.
>>46690287
>implying innocence
>implying we didn't have these shitstorms long before the very concept of tumblr even existed
Hello, newfag.
>>46689750
I played an asian monk in a city campaign who didn't speak the language. The other players taught me the word "Money" and I used that for all my bribe demands, pantomimed action requests, muggings, and answer to anything that was remotely phrased like a question. Kept a smug look on my face every time I said it.
>>46689769
Top kek, friend
>>46690143
And I was asking a question. If you can claim that his was objective....well you can't claim mine was, I'll admit to having a bias behind that post. That being said based on the way the op constructed his question and initial post leads me to believe he had an agenda. To any non Americans whom I've offended by not considering your perspectives becore making my post and just shoehorning it into my American world view, I am sorry, but I am American and that's kinda the only world view I can present. I'm not saying I never play other races or ethnicities, I enjoy playing koreans.I lived there and am quite proficient with their language and am familiar with their culture, that being said I play what I know, same as most people do, and there is nothing wrong with that. If what I know is Caucasian american, I'll probably play like a cacausian American. If I tried to play something else I was unfamiliar with, I'd just end up playing offensive stereotypes, like my gm whenever he makes gangster npcs in our shadowrun game. I'm not trying to say playing other races is wrong, I'm saying don't do it if you can't do it well, and don't try to force yourself because your game doesn't have enough diversity.
>>46689750
Yeah, I've also played women, elves, wizards and people with social skills.
>>46690242
>He asked about it
>That implies it's a big deal
No. No, it really doesn't. Asking a question about something does not mean it's a big deal. You are fucking insane.
>>46689750
I'm scandinavian but I've had british, irish, german, french, dutch, russian etc characters. A handful of asians I think, but not much more than that.
I just don't think there are a lot of cultures irl that are interesting to me which aren't european or east asian.
>>46690341
Look at this shitstorm. Either OP is a naive ignoramus, or he knew that this would probably turn into a shitstorm because we're all in the mood to jump at shadows and took that risk anyways. In the latter case, asking about it all means it's a big deal to him.
Every so often I like to play a foreigner character to wherever the game is taking place. It helps that another player also enjoys it as well so I can usually do something like play her bodyguard. At least then we can communicate with each other.
>>46690445
Eh, this isn't that big of a shit storm, if we tried to talk gender issues, then we'd get a shit storm.
>>46690183
>Most people play white characters in white settings because that's their comfort zone. That is obvious.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Let me get this straight.
Race A is dominant
People play as Race A
This is because Race A is their comfort zone
You just failed logic forever
>>46690183
It was already mentioned by the other anon, but your standpoint makes no sense whatsoever. If people play what's their comfort zone, in this case "white people playing as white people", why they play as Asians in Feng Shui? After all, going by your brilliant pattern of thinking, they should play as white folks.
No, but I'm sort of tempted to play a spooky middle eastern/Muslim girl after watching A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, because the skateboarding vampire Muslim chick in that was so fucking cool.
Playing another sex, race and religion might be a step too far for me though.
OP here, this is my only post after the OP itself, so anyone acting mad isn't me.
>>46690089
It's not wrong. I just decided to play a human in D&D finally, and when looking at the races figured I might go the fantasy-Chinese race, then got to wondering how often people choose to use the non-Euro race. Or for people of non-Euro descent, their own race.
I don't think I've ever mentioned my character's race, so I figure people just assume they're all white because I am.In fact, they're all Asian. No-one will know.
>>46690868
"people of non-Euro descent" play as their own race in most cases. Seriously, is that really such a big shocker to realise people usually play as their own race, unless the setting specifically forbids that or it would be highly unlikely?
>>46690912
No. Hence the question asking if specific /tg/ posters have done so. I was wondering if people who will happily play elves or halflings or what have you will play human characters to make them more like their real selves, or choose to make them different even if they're the "real life" species. Both are valid.
>>46690912
I usually play non-human races, actually, and I'm not-Euro.
>>46689750
>feel like most human PCs end up being white, probably for comfort zone reasons.
Most of my human characters are whiteI'm a darkskin black
>>46689750
Yeah, played a blasian kid once.Who was an albino.
Seriously now, once played a spaniard in a modern game and a black guy with dark blonde hair in a fantasy game. My MMO characters are often dark skinned as well. I myself am white.
>>46689916
I say I say son, that there was a JOKE! A JOKE son!Nice boy but he's about as smart as a pigeon crossing the road
>>46690868
>Mfw op is actually really chill.
Well alright then, I respect that, my apologies for assuming this was bait or shit posting.
>>46690287
Bastet please go.
>>46689750
I'm a minmaxer, so I don't like taking Stat penalties.
>>46690006
But of course, Piotr.
>>46691097
So you don't play white people?
>>46689750
I never play as human, all of my characters are either Slavic or Irish.
>>46690742
Neat.
>>46691143
I play whites if I want a superior jack of all trades, master of most.
I play Asian if I want a high INT.
>>46691169
>HE DOESN'T PLAY ELVES
>>46690961
In fantasy games I literally don't care. I pick what suits me best for the new character concept. So it doesn't even have to be human or humanoid. And if it is, if I feel like playing as Not!Persian scholar, why not? Next character will be say German raubrittern and the next one Aztec hunter. Because that suits me, the campaign or whatever else. Or maybe I just feel like it.
Said that, I usually play as Chinese bureaucrats in historical campaigns whenever it's possible. And I'm Spanish.
>>46691151
Oh I see what you've done here
What can I say, I only identify with Caucasians and Goblins, maybe a Skaven.
>>46689750
Frankly, the only time it ever comes up are in one-on-one ERP games where the other player and I have a thing for interracial, contrast, and ethnic conflict.
Other than that I just default to generic fantasy Anglo man or woman, and I'm not even white nor British.
>>46691329
Why Anglo then?
I play L5R as a man named John McGree
Or, you know, maybe I don't and I tailor suit to match the campaign.
Otherwise, if race doesn't matter, why should race matter?
>>46691368
Because of all the movies and shows where British accents = history/fantasy.
>>46691450
Never understand this thing. Just like I never understood the convention of using British accents (and most often the plebean ones) as Latin in case of "sword and sandals" film.
>>46689750
>Have you played a human not of (the equivalent of) your race in a /tg/ game?
Yup. I'm white (Irish by descent, American by birth and raising, if it matters to anyone), but of my four human characters, two weren't white, and one of the white ones was only ambiguously so.
In Vampire: the Masquerade, my first character was a black Hispanic Toreador. When she met her final death (due to my own stupidity) she was replaced by a white French national Caitiff.
Prior to that I had a sniper in a Spycraft 1.0 campaign who was by most people's definitions white, but some /pol/acks might argue differently. She was half-white American (mother's side), half-French Algerian (father's side); her father was mixed French and North African and a member of the French Foreign Legion.
Before her, however, my first human character was a black woman, a Mandalorian Crusader who had been frozen in carbonite during the Mandalorian Wars and unfrozen shortly after the Battle of Yavin. She went on to become Mandalore the Forge, the leader of a new Crusade.
>>46691596
The various accents of Britain are probably the accents that Americans are most familiar with hearing and can understand and parse most easily, so as a result having a character put on one of the various British accents is a good way to signal that a character isn't American without having to worry about whether or not the audience will be able to understand what he's saying.
>>46689750
>Have you played a human not of (the equivalent of) your race in a /tg/ game?
Yes.
Let's see
>Be white American psuedo-Injun (CDIB card despite being white as snow)
>Last few characters have been:
>Slavic space knight
>French mercenary and ex cop
>Space German and Space Chinese mix
>White Jew girl
>Fantasy Sami equivalent
I like dicking around with ethnicity, what can I say?
>>46691747
So basically Americans are retarded and need heavy-handed prompts to get something? That explain why so many non-English speaking characters speak absurdly heavily accented English. Now at least I know why the fuck having such bullshit in your film... more or less
>>46691986
Okay, apparently we're doing this now.
So then, before we go any further, I need to know what your native tongue is.
>>46689750
I played a black dude in a JoJo game once, also played a Drow in D&D.
I made an infobroker character in Cyberpunk who was black awhile back
Alright looks like now that obligatory outrage is out of the way, this thread can get back on track and devolve into meaningless on upmanship as we try to out do each other by claiming characters more extremely divergent from ourselves in a massive metaphorical dick measuring contest. I would say mandalorian chick guy is winning so far, but he's clearly trying to hard. Maybe that one black guy who played white a while back, thats pretty novel for running counter to the general trend in this thread.
>>46692091
Silesian. Which technically means "none", since Poland denies Silesian as language. So let's say it's Polish.
And I'm pretty much aware how much I've fucked up the previous post.
So basically Americans are retarded and need heavy-handed prompts to get the point? That explains why so many non-English speaking characters are using absurdly heavy accented English. Now at least I know why the fuck anyone would want to have such bullshit in their film... more or less
Happy?
Besides, this actually works better when the grammar is fucked up instead of accent. I can speak English with few different accents, including Australian one, but it's my grammar that will always set me up. Hence why I find it so annoying to have accents as indicators, not the speaking pattern. Especially when it's so heavy-handed.
>>46692225
I spoke too soon, its gonna be back to shitposting and outrage for a while after this. Why did you do it man? Why must you be so hateful?
>>46692171
Hey, fuck off, I'm a Slav playing whatever I want and suits the campaign. So when it's set in Africa I will for sure play German cartographer, not his Askari bodyguards.
>>46692280
Wait... what?
>>46692317
Is it that hard to understand? Dude just insulted the americans, of couse they will shit post and rage at the guy, its what Americans do on the internet. This will then draw out the other American haters, and the thread will be derailed for a while. Or not, maybe no one will give a shit about childish insults made over the Internet by anons who try to hide the fact that they are total pussies by talking big, but that would be a first.
>>46692538
But it's really not my fault the whole "give them funny accent" is a thing in cinema. But anyway, sorry for bringing it up, I get it now why it was a bad idea.
>>46689750
Last character I rolled was black.Even though I did my best to play him as a very altruistic character, he turned out evil in the end. I blame the DM
>>46692588
Holy shit what is happening in this thread, people are being reasonable. Kudos man, I can get why the accent thing would be annoying, sometimes it gets to me too (but thats generally when accents Don match for me ie french character British accent cough fuck you Picard cough). I honestly thought you were trying to pick a fight.
>>46689750
I'm straight and Jewish, and I usually either play a gay white guy or a straight black woman.
>>46692225
Okay, Silesian then. So let's say for the sake of argument that a Silesian-language film was made but it's set in the Wild West. You mean to tell me that seeing everyone speaking with Silesian accents wouldn't weird you out?
Maybe it's just a difference in approach to cinema thing, though. For example, the game Metal Gear Solid III takes place entirely in the Soviet Union, but only one native-Soviet character in it speaks with a non-American accent. Speaking as an American, it was thoroughly bizarre to see the main villain, a guy named Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin, speaking like he came from the Bronx.
When Americans see characters who are from different countries, we don't except them to speak with an American accent. it just weirds us out.
>>46692696
>this didnt devolve into a bitch slapping fest yet
...Am I the only asshole on this thread? I almost feel obligated to apologize to that slav I pissed of with my bait.
>>46692696
You know, there is a local TV station that is making Silesian dubb for everything they show. It started as a joke, but now they are doing it because of very high demand. And nobody is weirded out by this.
But you remind me the idiotic (from my point of view) shitstorm many, many years ago in the net. There is such British film, The Bunker, about a bunch of German soldiers fortifying themselves in a bunker surrounded by seemingless endless mass of American GIs.
Thing is - as it's British film, they all speak with British accent. Cue MASSIVE shitstorm about how they should speak... still English, but with German accent.
I mean... what the hell?! There is absolutely nothing wrong with actors speak their own language. It's only getting weird when you impose they should suddenly start joking around.
But then again, there is a Polish cult-classic, "CK Dezerterzy", about soldiers serving in Austro-Hungarian Army. The entire film, sans few words in German and Italian and a joke in Hungarian is in Polish. BUT the translation convention is that characters are using German as their lingua franca, as it fits the setting and makes sense in the context.
>>46689750
Multiple times, mostly just to do something different from the other players.
>>46692815
>I mean... what the hell?! There is absolutely nothing wrong with actors speak their own language.
Well, no, there isn't. But again, Americans are weided out if a supposedly Russian character speaks American English. The thing is that many accents are difficult to parse through. Imagine if you heard a Japanese-accented Silesian:
>Ojcze nasz, któryś jest w niebie
>Ojuchi nassu, kitoryisu chestu bu nyebya
Or, heck, the same thing in English:
>Our father who art in Heaven
>Ouru faadaa huu arutto iin Heiban
So in cases like that it's just accepted in American cinema that you instead use a British accent, which sounds "foreign" but is intelligible.
Alright question here, since we have a few people who've claimed this, why do you play opposite gender characters? I'm not trying to be rude or bait, im just honestly curious, I dont get it. The only people Ive seen doing this do it cause they have fucked up fetishes and want to drag us all into their magical worlds. I mean as gm I can undestand it, not every single person you meet can be male and you need to facilitate a good world for your party (just for the love of god no magical realms please), but I just cant understand the appeal as a player, and I feel it would just be incredibly akward for all involved. Care to enlighten me?
I played stereotypical middle eastern diaspora pizzaman, right down to only speaking in perkerdansk when in character. Invested all the start wealth into a BMW and used character background to call in back up consisting of multiple cars full of thugs when we got in trouble.
It was a CoC game in a dystopian future Denmark.
I played a not!african not!nazi paladin.
>>46693048
I play online, so it's a lot less awkward, first off. Second, it's a way to jar myself out of my standard comfort zone and force myself to roleplay more, since while the differences between men and women in personality and behavior are subtle, I have to shift my mindset just a little bit to keep it going well. I play a woman when I want to shake myself up a bit and freshen my roleplaying. Also because I genuinely enjoy getting into the heads of people drastically different from myself.
>>46693048
I like women, and you're a prude. Try being a mature adult.
>>46693122
Alright, fair enough. How is online? Ive considered it, but im unsure if I want to risk random people on the internet.
>>46693196
>How is online?
Can be good, can be shit. Find friends online and be rigorous about getting rid of shitters, and you can end up with an amazing group.
>>46693174
Right, because its perfectly normal to be sitting there with a bunch of guys doing sexual dialogue and acting out your characters fucking. I want no part in that. Now if that isn't the objective, then I dont mind as much, I just still feel its a little odd. If that makes me a prude fine, rather be a prude than a /d/eviant.
>>46693233
>playing a woman means you're playing ERP and circle jerking with a bunch of dudes
You're a prude retard.
No, I've only ever played white male in games and I have no desire to play anything else.
>>46693174
>Using prude as insult.
Wew.
>>46693281
Look man, I asked for reasonable reasons someone would play opposite gender, trying to broaden my mind and understans. One guy provided a reason, which makes sense, that I can accept as a possibility. You immediately took offense and attacked me. Dont try and take the high ground here bub, you have no leg to stand on. I never meant to imply that every9ne who does opposite gender characters was involved in such circle jerks. Note the premise of asking why people do it assumes there are alternate legitimate reasons for it. Also not that in the same post where I do blatantly bring out the reason why I would have a problem with that, I also state that as long as its not a circle jerk, I dont have a problem, its just odd, meaning not what im used to. You called me a prude, a word generally used to insult those with more limited views on sexuality than the one doing the insulting, so yes I assumed you were saying there is nothing wrong with a man acting out a fetish through his character. I appear to have made an ass out of myself in my assumptions, but you really need to calm down mate. Just throwing insults at people doesn't really prove your point, it just makes people question your maturity.
>>46693329
if slut can be used as an insult, so can be prude
>>46693500
I disagree, being a slut is bad, being a prude is fine.
>>46693466
What part of my slinging insults at you made you think in was trying to take the high ground? I'm just letting you know I think you're a prude and childish dummy for even worrying about men playing a female character.
>>46693514
Debatable.
>>46693514
I dunno man, prude leans pretty close to screamish uptight cunt.
I'm a turkish man, my latest character is a black woman.
>>46693527
You have now at this point accused me of being immature twice. By accusing me of being immature you are attempting to establish that your position is that of the responsible reasonable adult, this constitutes an attempt to take the high ground by establishing the authority of your claim. Consider any argument between a child and an adult, the adult acts from a place of power, the metaphorical high ground. Taking the high ground does not need to be about claiming moral superiority, itcan refer to other forms as well. "Dummy" , yes that is a wonderful arguement, make a baseless attack on my intelligence.
I've played lots of different skin colors. If I'm already pretending to be a mage from an enchanted floating island, I may as well pretend to be an albino mage from an enchanted floating island, y'know?I am routinely mistaken for being Mexican in real life. Or some kind of middle eastern. I am neither.
>>46693514
>he has never seen a prude call statues of greek godesses "pornography"
>>46694062
Well in that case we get into degrees of prudishness I suppose. Acording to the above i am a prude, but I would happily accept those as works of art.
>>46693794
It's really weird how fixated you are on this.
>>46693048
>>46693233
>>46693466
>>46693794
>Getting this ass-blasted about called "prude"
American spotted.
Seriously, he handled you like a fucking trout and you took all the baits like a champ.
>>46693609
Turks role-play? And I mean that as a sincere question. It's... well, surprising.
>>46692941
I think I get your point, but one thing still misses me.
American English and British English are different, I get it. But they are still the same language in the end. I don't know, maybe that's because I'm not a native, but does it really sound so much different for natives to sound "foreign"?
>>46694222
How dare you assume that because we aren't white we can't role play! I'm an ayy lamo and I role play every day!
I played a black character in a low fantasy medieval Europe setting. He was a criminal before the game started (DM chose our back stories after we chose class and before we chose race). He made superior race and racial dominance jokes the whole time. He was the face and at one point literally talked two people into killing themselves.
>>46689750
Yeah, all my human characters are white.
>>46694292
Hey, I'm Croatian. You know what strange looks I get when I'm trying to get someone to play? Thus I'm surprised they play at all in Turkey.
So what games are popular? Please don't tell me D&D, that would be a really wet blanket
>>46694222
All the time, "being part of Europe" is their favorite.
>>46694292
>we aren't white
Turks are pretty white, mate
>>46694357
>You know what strange looks I get when I'm trying to get someone to play?
I know how you feel. Whenever I mention roleplaying people immediately assume I mean the sexy kind.
>>46694357
>>46694386>overlooking the joke this hard
>>46694406
... there was one?
>>46694200
Your point?
>>46694420
>I'm an ayy lamo
>and I role play every day
>>46694455
Maybe it never occured to you, but while it might be funny if actually said, it doesn't work at all as text. It's just internet speak, makes zero sense, ignore, post answer about parts you got.
In short - if there was a joke, yeah, I've missed it.
>>46694516
f...
>>46694170
I'm less fixated on the issue itself, and more frustrated with how tg handles disagrements. I really see no need for everything to turn into
>muh opinion, retard
>Faggot, muh opinion
>rinse and repeat.
It's less that I'm fixated on the issue, or that I'm angry with him (though admittedly I am frustrated), than that I'm just really sick if this happening and I'm venting a bit. I'm sick of people being hateful for no reason, I'm sick of threads full of people acting like we are all 13 again ( no offense to any 13 year Olds reading this, we were all there once). I just wanted to point out how futile and silly it is to just throw insults at people. Yes we can disagree, but we don't have to be picks about it, and if we are going to be picks about it, could we at least be smart pricks? Honestly it reminds me of bullies from middle school
>your retarded
> Im in advanced maths and your failing geometry
> Well your queer
> what a witty comeback.
I am just sick and tired of it. And If you all want to laugh at me and continue to "insult" me, then that's fine, your attempts to reassure yourself of your masculinity by acting in a manner you perceive as dominant over the Internet don't really affect me in the long run.
>>46694222
I am ethnically turkish. I live in Europe and have european values.
>>46694435
My point is that you should definitely let some steam go, instead of still furiously swallowing bait. Because from what I see, you are still going on, with longer and longer posts.
Seriously, what for? You KNOW he's baiting you and yet you take it.
>>46694751
So there is a chance your old guy serves that tasty kebab down the street.
I was actually getting all pumped up about perspective of learning what Turks play. Apparently that will be a riddle for a longer while than I've expected
>>46689750
I played a spanish, /pol/-tier freight pilot in Firefly. It was really just an excuse for me to make jew jokes tho
Every human I play is a white straight male. When I play other races I'll find the closest Egyptian analogue and go from there
>>46694751
I'm Greek-American and I honestly hope you get shot in a terrorist attack, turkroach.
>>46689750
I'm a GM. My job is to play everyone not a player character. If I limit myself out of some misplaced, guilt-ridden fear of offending I'd only end up with a game where everyone is a white dude and then I'd be catching shit for it too.
That mindset is a no-win scenario and we are all better off just doing what we want and assuming that reasonable adults will correct the issue if someone in their group does voice their concern. So unless someone in your group is being a pretentious killjoy, you are being paranoid.
>>46694638
>I'm less fixated on the issue itself, and more frustrated with how tg handles disagrements
That's what I'm referring to. Maybe you should quit being such a fag about it.
>>46694803
I guess I mistakenly believed that I could get somewhere with this, and I'm to damn stubborn to just back off, but your right. This is a fight I can't win, tg is just full of caustic gits, and nothing can change that. Hell it's making me into one of them. If you'll excuse me I'm just going to pop over to one of the sex boards and relax a bit. Congrats anon, who ever you are, you "win" I guess.
>>46694968
>>>/reddit/
>>46694968
>He was trying to win
>In the net
>Against anonymous user(s)
Jesus fucking Christ, my sides
>>46689837
That's funny cause I'm white and I've played as black and Asian guys before.
>>46694922
Finally someone with some sense.
>>46689750
I've played black and asian characters before, a few times.
>>46689750
I played a thick one-eyed chink girl in a sci-fi campaign.
>>46689750
I have played mostly white humans (when I play humans), but mostly I play Dwarves. Although I've been toying with the idea of playing a naive nice not!Slav Drow, from the "Undercountry" that speaks in broken common.
>>46690468
Probably get a bigger one by trying to restart edition wars.
My campaigns only have white people and white people with tans.
>>46689750
Yep. I've played a japanese guy in a campaign once: myself and one other character were Oriental Adventures characters, while the rest of the party were normal classes. I've had a couple of characters specifically from desert and jungle territories. I've ran what was basically an Inuit character (although as a minotaur).
The tricky part isn't so much the skin tone but the culture, though. I could run a dozen different characters with a dozen different skin tones from a dozen different environments, but it wouldn't matter one bit if they were all the stereotypical european villages. On the other hand, we could have a group of all white guys who were vastly different races due to their vastly different cultural upbringing.
Also, I'm not quite sure what is the equivalent of an Irish/French/German race mix in most RPG settings, anyways.
>>46689750
I once played an exiled fantasy Ethiopian in a D&D campaign, he was a pretty cool guy
I personally an a convoluted mix of filipino and chinese and sicilian
>>46694274
>American English and British English are different, I get it. But they are still the same language in the end. I don't know, maybe that's because I'm not a native, but does it really sound so much different for natives to sound "foreign"?
Absolutely. There's 3,000 miles of ocean separating us from England, and 300+ years of divergent linguistic evolution (plus a deliberate effort by a man named Daniel Webster to fix a lot of the inconsistencies in English spelling - hence why Americans spell things with an "er" ending rather than an "re" ending, e.g., "theater" instead of "theatre", "saber" instead of "sabre", so as to make it line up better with words that end in "-ar", "-ir", "-or", and "-ur" as well as spell it how it's actually pronounced. This is also the reason why American English uses "color" instead of "colour" or "armor" instead of "armour" - the U was an extraneous letter that did nothing and so was excised).
We can still understand each other, mostly, but pronunciation and word choice are pretty different. This is before you get into the fact that American English has like a dozen distinct accents and British English has a dozen of its own. Then there's South African, Goblish, Indian English, the various Australian accents, and the primeval pseudo-linguistic grunts and howls of the New Zealanders.
The classic example in English is "tomato, tomato", with American English usually pronouncing it as "toh-MAY-toh" (heavy emphasis on second syllable) while British English usually pronounces it as "toh-mah-toh" (only slight emphasis on second syllable).
And then there's the great aluminum/aluminium debate...
(For the record, it's aluminum. Canada's got our back on this one)
>>46703974
It's tge language, saying it's twi different languages has as much merit as claiming the US is a culturally diverse place comparable to whole regions with multiple actual countries and as if comparing individual states to countries makes any sense at all. And yes, Aussies and Canucks speak the same shit too.
>>46703974
Also, it's aluminium, dude who discovered called it that.
>>46704490
Just like American football is the only true football because we came up with the name first. Checkmate soccerfags.
Am Indian, have played Arab, African, European.
Haven't played East Asian, I guess? Feels weab-y
>>46704490
WRONG.
Humphrey Davy in his 1812 book Chemical Philosophy called it "aluminum" throughout; previously he had favored silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium.
However, an anonymous reviewer of Davy's book objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, because in his own (paraphrased) words, "aluminium sounds more classical, aluminum sounds like modern shit".technically, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."
And that's the genesis. The guy who isolated it wanted "aluminum", a Victorian Anonymous wanted "aluminium". In America and Canada we settled on "aluminum" because Webster (as mentioned above) used that spelling and because the guy who monopolized its production, Charles Martin Hall, used "aluminum" on his products.
In Britain they use "aluminium" because some Victorian nostalgiafag Anonymous told them to, and because the Old World has difficulty moving on from the past, they used it and from there spread it to the rest of the Empire.
>>46689750
Blackadin is the only way I paladin.
>>46697813
Which edition of Gender and Gendarmes do you play?
>>46702228
This, especially this bit:
>due to their vastly different cultural upbringing
This is what makes character and this is also what's going IRL more often than not. Metisos in early Spanish rule over Americas are great example of it. They were ethnically locals with bigger or smaller dose of Spanish genes added in. Or even no genes at all. And they were threated as Spanish, because they were part of the Spanish culture.
Similar stuff happend with jesuits in China. They've alle studied and studied hard Chinese classics and in the end pretty much became literati, the Chinese bureaucrat class, treated as Chinese by everyone. Just to remind - they were mostly Italian and Portugese, but there were also French among them, few Irish and one Pole. None of them looked even remotely as Asian, not to mention Chinese, yet NOBODY was treating them as outsiders thanks to their in-depth cultural integration.
>>46689750
>guaranteed replies
>>46694274
British sounds "classy" and "old fashioned" to Americans, so of course they use British accents.
>>46694992
There is nothing wrong with Reddit.
>>46704882
Not THIS is guaranteed replies
>Your reply
>>46704646
Maybe you should move on from the imperial system before commenting on other's dificulty with moving on.
>>46689750
I've played as an Lebanese gentlemen in WOD and a Not Arabic/Texan in 40k
>>46705132
>a Not Arabic/Texan
A what?
I'm black and tend to play indians (poo)
>itt: we once again prove that /pol/ is tumblr's single most successful shill op
>>46689750
I played a Space Indian dude once, he ended up as the party straightman.
>>46694370
Underrated post
>>46689750
yes, asian, fidji and black people. I'm white.
>>46689750
I'm playing a Middle Eastern woman in one game.
>>46689750
If I wanted to play a nigger I would rather choose Goblin or Orc as race.
>>46704882
Get the fuck out of here you son of a whore.
>>46704646
>and because the Old World has difficulty moving on from the past
lmao the irony
>>46703974
>primeval pseudo-linguistic grunts and howls of the New Zealanders.
I am a New Zealander and this is true.
Our text communication is generally very good. We are like educated Brits in that respect, but our speech is incomprehensible. I had a very hard time in the States having myself understood despite technically speaking English well. The replacement of every vowel with the colourless schwa is idiotic and sounds like the drunken retards we are, and we mumble so fast as to sound like a moronic Welshman reciting the Lords Prayer.it's also allegedly very sexy and I banged more greasy Southern girls than I would care to admit to my grandma.
In terms of the OP my current cleric is broadly Semitic African in appearance, tall thin Moroccan type. He came from a hot coastal climate, his people according to the GM were mud-brick and stone-carved house people and I thought a look similar to the same in our world would be appropriate.
I honestly don't see any reason why you would be locked into having a white character just because of your race. Unless you're some 'won't play shitskins' wackjob then you can play with aesthetic, roleplaying, social and cultural norms that could lead to interesting character development.
That being said, a lot of my non-sci-fi or period setting characters have been white, and I think the reason for that is lack of thought about the physical appearance of this character.
I played an Arab once, I had a really cool idea for this huge guy with a turban and a battle axe.
Mostly it's white folk though. People mostly want to play characters with something in common with them. Race is a pretty easy one.
Also, there's nothing worse than someone making a poor attempt at representing another race.
I don't find race nearly as interesting as culture.
>>46689750
I played a White person and a Persian-like guy a few times.
Once played a SE Asian-type.
I mostly play young or old Indian monks/fighters/brawlers, but I'm half Indian and half-White so I guess only the Persian guy counts but not really since I'm half-Indian and share lotsa DNA with em folks.
So I suppose I only did once, and it was the Burmese kinda dude.
>>46689931
Yknow, one would think that Europeans would be the niggest motherfuckers on the planet since it'd make sense for their skin to darken to absorb whatever light they could and that nigs would be the whitest motherfuckers to reflect light and stop overheating.
>>46690006
>>46690052
>>46690086
>>46706808
Those anons know what's up
>>46706995
>Not understanding basic biology
You just can't be fucking serious
>>46690337
is this a copy pasta?
>leads me to believe he had an agenda.
what on Earth.
>>46689750
I'm triyng to be a Mongolian when playin' centaurs
(the mongolian that conquered half of the world with hoof and bow and became a Bloodthirster in afterlife, not the boring modern one)
>>46690052
I saw a game once that was set in Japan, and had multiple Japanese players. Also an American, playing a Japanese character who he described as "an average, quiet guy". When an NPC said something like "the gods are in disarray, you must find out what is wrong" he started going on a "HOW DARE THEY CALL THEMSELVES GODS WHEN THEY'RE NOT OMNIPOTENT, I REFUSE TO BOW DOWN TO SUCH TYRANTS" rant, while OOC insisting this was completely normal behaviour for a Shintoist.
>>46705118
That's got nothing to do with nostalgia and everything to do with the sheer cost and hassle of changing over.
Plus it's a statistical fact that Americans tend to be better and eyeballing things like weight, distance, and temperature as opposed to Europeaners who are dedicated to the metric system, because American Standard is based on real-world measurements whereas Metric is based on abstract measurements.
Plus having just gotten back from a trip to Ireland and England (the latest of innumerable ones thanks to family living there - I actually went to Kindergarten in Ireland), I can safely say that it's not like the British Isles have moved on themselves. They still talk about things in terms of pounds and feet. And stones, which throws off Americans completely.
>"How many stone do you weigh?"
>"What? Depends on the size of the stones, I guess..."
>"...are you an idiot?"
>"Are you?"
>>46706135
Yeah, no one uses anything nearly that precise. Inches, feet, yards, miles. Nautical miles if you're at sea. Hands if measuring the height of a horse. That's it.
Although that list isn't even complete, it doesn't have the thou on it.
>>46689750
I recently played a chivalrous arabian knight. Couldn't use magic because it's forbidden to him, so he had to resort to al-chimiyya (alchemy) and later on, djinns under his command.
He also saw paladins of other orders who followed various 'gods' as infidels he was sworn to purge because according to him, they were worshipers of deceitful minions of satan - but they knew not, the poor souls.
I like to play as slavs and frenchies when I'm not playing my own race, doing accents is a lot of fun and makes me feel more immersed.
I'm black.
>>46689750
>whites are humans
>Asians are elves
>muslims are orcs
>blacks are gnolls and lizardfolk
My setting is racist as fuck, but if I had put in human analogue to the other races, the players wouldn't be properly racist as they should be in a medieval esque setting.
I like playing gypsies
>>46689750
There are benefits of playing your own race such as the knowledge of cultures and varied lifestyle, plus It's always fun to play a sterotype and just ham it up. Like telling the ranger you will eat his dog if he ever points the business end of the crossbow at you again.and i get a free pass using slightly weeb images.
>>46689769
Exactly this. It's a guilty wish fulfillment power fantasy of mine.
>>46689750
My girlfriend is playing a zulu-inspired Occultist in our current PF campaign
I once played the settings equivalent of of a Finn.
>>46708390
It sounds like you are simply ripping-off Wolsung, one of the shittiest games around, unsuprisingly from Poland
>>46689750
I'm white and my longest running character is a black berserker hailing from Fantasy-Aztlán.
>>46708063
>le "imperial is natural" argument
What if I told you it's one of those things than is fully under cultural immersion? If you are using imperial ever since, it feels "natural". I'm using metric ever since. Guess what - it feels "natural". Because in both cases it's the system the brain is using as the way of dealing with surroundings.
But go on, keep on deluding yourself. I always wonder how people... sorry, how Americans using imperial are trying to explain themselves the rollercoaster of unit conversion within their system, so how 3 feets make a yard or 16 ounces are a pound. Not only it lacks precision, but it also lacks common sense.
See, for example traditional Chinese measurements were "imperial" in their origin, BUT their multiplication was by 10. So sure, the basic unit is taken from the ass, but then it's divided or multiplied by 10 to get another, bigger unit.
Here goes your "natural" I guess.
I played a shameless ripoff of Dr. Facilier in a Scion game once. Quit after the first session because the GM was an asshole. Shame, because Scion is pretty fun.
>>46711676
found you
http://www.myth-weavers.com/wiki/index.php/World:The_Pangar_Chronicles/The_Eaglecrest_Chronicles/Players/Profiles/Necalli
>>46708063
Last time i was asked to walk out 100 meters, i did it, exactly.
Also why do Americans keep bringing up the real world measurement meme when your real world measurement depends entirely on how big you are? It's only easier to you because you grew up with it and got used to it, to everyone else in the world it's dumb and contrived and makes no sense.
>>46708063
>Plus it's a statistical fact that Americans tend to be better and eyeballing things
Maybe because they lack proper measurements to do anything else than eye-balling?
>>46708063
>everything to do with the sheer cost and hassle of changing over.
Yes, because other countries didn't have to spent money and other resources on switching... Jesus, fucking Birma, one of the poorest and underdeveloped nations on this planet, ravaged by fucking civil war, is going to switch, and you are talking about costs.
>>46711797
>>46711676
>>46711797
meaning, what, you're Jaimie Brancato?
>>46712035
>why do Americans keep bringing up the real world measurement meme
Because they really think it's a valid thing. Just think about it. There is a modern nation that openly considers a system based on body size a superior way of describing world around them, never mind being in the same time aware people vary in size.
Let that just sink in.
>>46712213
>>46712248
how isRhode Islandthis time of year?at least we know you are playing outside your race
>>46712287
Not if everyone measures themselves, then everyone will be equally high.
>>46712464
Still pretty cold and windy, unfortunately. Sun is out a bit more though lately, so that's something.
>>46712474
This is not your everyday stupid...
>>46695321
Thanks, anon.
>be white
>play a Mongol elf
>implying I've actually played anything in the last five years
Most of the characters I have in reserve are Middle Eastern though.
>>46689750
My current character is a redhead, so yeah
>>46712474
>if everyone measures themselves, then everyone will be equally high
>>46689908
Do you have the PDF?
>>46715094
I think >>46712474 is already equally high.
