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[Stahlseele]

i like dwarves . . sure, they are gruff and rude and stubborn . . heck, makes em easier to roleplay for me *g*
but dwarves have the stereotype attached to them that they like to drink and eat and build cool toys . . technically speaking they are the nerds of fantasy *g*

[DocTaotsu]

I usually end up playing a human but I voted Orks because I freakin love them from a story perspective. Here to go, born to die, you're middled aged by college and freakin dead by retirement. Keeps you on edge, makes things mean a little more.

[Leofski]

That's their natural limit. Just makes them hungrier to hit the big time so they can earn the money to stay alive.

[last_of_the_grea...]

Heh...looks like dwarfs "unoficially" suck!

[Fortune]

Well, they are the right height ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Kerris]

My goodness... the things people on the internet find to bitch about.

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I tend to play humans, just because they fit most concepts, and I'm not creative enough to come up with decent, non-cliche concepts for other races.

I wouldn't call them my favorite, though. I guess I don't really have a favorite.

[kanislatrans]

Dwarves for me, thank you. followed closely by orks. then Humans, Trolls and finally elves .

Not that I have anything against Elves, just can't seem to keep one alive. Its a curse I think. I have a chummer who had a similar problem with shamans: could be invisible,wearing Mil Spec heavy armor behind a force 10 ward. and still be the guy that catches a lucky round to the instant dead spot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

[Hocus Pocus]

I like the three legged race. Or the patato sack race *yuck,hyuck*

[Faelan]

Well I picked Elves. I have seen someone play the arrogant elf stereotype once in 28 years of gaming, and they received exactly what was coming to them...a big pile of party smackdown, immediately following the very public NPC smackdown. Needless to say the player quickly amended their world view. As far as the IE thing well, I like it but mostly because of how it played out in Earthdawn, I understand the use or rather abuse of IE involvement was frequent and the seeming end all be all of things. If a dragon was not behind it, an IE was, everyone else was just a bystander, patsy, or fool. If however you were into Earthdawn, the existence of IE works and fulfills a purpose in the overall story. So for me the enjoyment of IE's stems entirely from the Earthdawn side of things.

[Iota]

It`s funny that in the whole discussion about elves being hated and orks being the underdogs no one mentioned that it is actually more the other way round.

I mean: most of the players i know hate or at least dislike elves for what ever reason. That`s why i personally like to play elves, because they`ll for sure will have a hard time in any group, making them more underdog than any troll or ork could ever be.

Challenging roleplay!

Moreover elves are effective killing machines because of their high agillity.

Of course, a troll just takes the bullets, but i always prefered killing the othres before they can kill me...

[Stahlseele]

Playing-Wise Elves might be underdogs, but Society-Wise in Shadowrun? no, not so much . .
as for the killing .. i like trolls, orcs and dwarves because they can deal as much damage with their fists as they can deal with most weapons . .
as for trolls and taking bullets . . come on, admit it . . just calmly walking up to the guy shooting you and waiting for him to go clik clik clik clik and giving him the cruel smile and beating him upis just too good to pass up ^^

[Iota]

Ok i have to admit that trolls are a lot of fun (at least for the players...i`m just mastering a campaign having three trolls in the team and it takes a lot of preparation to scare them at least a little...)

But why making a difference between playing-wise and society-wise? I mean a shadowrunner ended up in the shadows, because he probably couldn`t make it in society. So an elf with no other choice than joining some runner team will have to deal with what ever the teammates throw at him.

[last_of_the_grea...]

Heh! *Stahlseele the troll stands in front of the pistol armed elf Iota*

BANG! BANG! BANG! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!"

*sTAHLSEELE* "You done?" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

[Stahlseele]

yeah, kinda like that ^^
either hit em with 20M Damage Fists
or hit em with 20D Pole-Arm . .
i don't really care for Heavy Weapons, i am my own heavy weapon *g*
only thing that can really scare trolls is chem-tech, as it's still hard enough to roll 10's to not drop and fall asleep when hit with Gamma Scopolamine Arrows . .
but everything else is only a question of Armor-Mods in SR3 . . 8 Worn and 3 build in Armor makes 11, and it's easy enough to roll 6's to stage down a Hit from a PAC . . GM threw grenades (16M Damage) at my Troll once, i got away with 1 light damage, no damage, 1 light damage . . yes, he was kinda peeved about that . . then i went and cancelled out his magics due to insane dice-rolls on my part . . twice . . one of his mages dropped dead as the drain killed him and my Troll only had Serious-Stun after that *snickers*

as for the elves again: society views them as being better than orcs and trolls, so that more or less takes care of them being underdogs society-wise . .
and in my group, they ain't underdogs when it comes to playing . . there's been times when i was the only one NOT playing an elf x.x . .

[Kyoto Kid]

I like the three legged race. Or the patato sack race *yuck,hyuck*

...dock that man a karma point in Pun damage and misspelling Potato. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[last_of_the_grea...]

Don't trolls fear Mana Bolt even a little bit?

[Sweaty Hippo]

Don't trolls fear Mana Bolt even a little bit?

Only if the Mage casting it isn't an incompetent mook. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/twirl.gif)