 Your favorite metatype to play, And why? |
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 Dec 5 2003, 12:39 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818  |
Yeah, so, uh.
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Dec 5 2003, 12:41 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 26-November 03 Member No.: 5,852 |
Humans, because I prefer to play ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and most metahumans aren't ordinary. (I voted low power in the other poll, if you hadn't guessed.)
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Dec 5 2003, 12:45 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 4-August 03 From: Amidst the ruins of Silicon Valley. Member No.: 5,242 |
I've played a number of dwarves and humans in the past, and have dabbled with orks. Never played a troll, as yet. And I have played elves only rarely.
My current character is a nonmagical human who got SURGE'd in the year of the comet. |
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Dec 5 2003, 12:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 266 Joined: 16-April 02 From: DC Member No.: 2,605 |
One of my characters was a formed Ghost combat decker, so naturally he is an elf. however as soon as I get into another campaign I really want to try a couple of the new metavarients. The giant (troll), oni (orc), gnome (dwarf), and miniator (troll) all look really interesting. However since I usually end up as the GM i'll probably have to settle for making cool NPCs.
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Dec 5 2003, 12:46 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
I love playing trolls with bonus point: Int and Exceptional attribute: Int. It's a lot of fun to come up plans as complex and well thought out as the human players, who are used to the "big dumb trog" sterotype.
And they're unbreakable. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:08 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Human fan, meself. Karma pool up the wazoo.
~J |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 262 Joined: 26-February 02 From: A wreched hive of scum and villany. Member No.: 1,479 |
Orks - They have a noble quality lacking in elves, dwarves and humans.
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Dec 5 2003, 01:20 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
I always kind of played them as (sterotypical) 80's blacks- sticking up for each other all the time, crammed in the poorest sections of the cities, etc.
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Dec 5 2003, 01:20 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 26-November 03 Member No.: 5,856 |
i played a troll, elf, and ork, in that order.
i like trolls, cause theyre big ass monsters, played an elf because it seemed different from a troll, and played an ork mostly because the g-dogg chracter from the wizkids game influenced me. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 4-August 03 From: Amidst the ruins of Silicon Valley. Member No.: 5,242 |
I've got a bit of a tangent. Why on earth does anyone ever bother to buy the Exceptional Attribute edge? It ups the Racial Modified limit and the Attribute maximums, but since virtually no-one that I know buys their PC's Intelligence up past the Racial Modified lim it seems like a pretty worthless Edge to me. Bonus attribute point, though, can actually be useful -- it gives you a way to, at character creation, break past the Racial Modified Limit (and play a astonishingly intelligent ork or troll). </tangent> And, um, on-topic, oni are pretty cool too. Hmmm... albino oni physads with magic resistance... go ahead and try to nail me with that stunball... :vegm: |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
I voted ork, but my ork characters only outnumber my elves by 1. I play humans, too, but for some reason, I just don't like trolls and dwarves.
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Dec 5 2003, 01:47 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,035 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Anahiem, CA Member No.: 100 |
I voted for Orc, cause I've been playing them a lot lately, though I've played every race, including lots of the metavariants. I'd say that in the long run I've played Orc the most, followed by human, then elf, then troll, then dwarf.
I think I like Orc the best because I love the idea of the Orc Underground and making characters that have a Robin Hood mentality. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:51 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 413 Joined: 20-November 03 Member No.: 5,835 |
Only when you earn enough karma to actually /earn/ KP... (I never have ;)) Granted, I'm a big fan for the long term karma pool result, too - that's easily half the reason I play humans. Well, maybe a third. One reason is I can empathize with a human -- I'm not a big beefy guy, so I have a hard time thinking like a troll; and while elves are cool, I just ... I dunno ... *shrugs*. Statistically, I'd be a human, probably, anyways. ;) And then there's the fact that no matter what system I use, if I'm a human, I can get more skills, and usually the same or maybe only slightly less stats. Since I like skill-heavy physads, (hehe), that makes meta-choices less appealing. *sigh* Again, not logical, just personal habit. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 413 Joined: 20-November 03 Member No.: 5,835 |
So ... where can I find more about Oni? =D I'd not heard of them in SR before. =) |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:53 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
SRComp.
Also being used by the new emporer as real kick-butt gaurds at his palace. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:55 AM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
Night Elves Rock!
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Dec 5 2003, 01:58 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
I hate elves! Gah. We never have elves in my fantasy games. Why, cause I, the GM, can't play them, so I place them out of the character's reach (mostly). Otherwise, they'd want to talk to the great elvish whoawhatist for whatever those pansies want.
And in my SR games most Elves wind up acting like everyone else or being hyper-racists from one of the Tirs. |
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Dec 5 2003, 02:01 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
No idea why for intelligence, but for a human (or anyone else without Quickness or Strength mods) it allows you to cram in that fourth point of Muscle Toners or Muscle Augmentation. ~J |
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Dec 5 2003, 02:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 30-May 03 From: Tulsa, OK Member No.: 4,652 |
I voted elves, but I really haven't had any preference. None of my main characters share a metatype...although when I make up those quick and dirty type characters I tend to go for an elf...
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Dec 5 2003, 02:36 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
While I normally play Humans, I tend to have the most fun playing Dwarves (especially a Dwarven Face I have -- Orks may have the Underground, but Dwarves of all creeds band together like some kind of fraternal order) and Orks (for the same reason, though focused more on the Underground). They just ooze style in my opinion. I voted for Dwarves, though, just because I like the little guys. :D
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Dec 5 2003, 02:52 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 29-June 02 Member No.: 2,920 |
1 Ork
1 Oger 4 Humans as PC. No elves, never ever. Voted Ork, as itīs fun to have bad habits. ;) |
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Dec 5 2003, 03:12 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
Ork or dwarf, because priority-system wise, it comes free with every non-awakened character. :) But seriously, I perfer humans and orks. Trolls and dwarfs are somewhere in the middle-ground. Elves are, well, boring and arrogant.
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Dec 5 2003, 03:35 AM
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Project Terminus: Soul Hunters Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 6-November 03 From: Casselberry, Florida U.S.A. Member No.: 5,798 |
I like elves but only because i like to play magic characters and the 2 cha. bonus helps with conjuring other wise my preferance would be human. dwarf and ork are ok but not prefered and trolls rock when you get to be a metavariant you get less bonus but then again there are less negitives.
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Dec 5 2003, 03:40 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Troll, because I'm mainly a Sammie guy, and they make mean mofos.
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Dec 5 2003, 03:50 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 291 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 806 |
I voted human 'cause they make up most of my chars, but when I choose a metatype, it's almost always orc.
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