What metatype do you play?, What metatype do you play? Options

[Mortax]

K, so I'm snowed in and board. :-) What metatype do you play? Just curiouse what peoples preferences are for PC race. Also, how does racism effect your game? Getting some ideas for future runs, so I thought it'd be fun to learn everyones take on this. Guess I should have said prefer to play. :-)

[hahnsoo]

Traditionally, a human. Recently (in the past two years), an ork or a dwarf. I'm just a fan of those Priority D metatypes for some reason. In other games, I tend to gravitate toward orks if the game doesn't marginalize them into barbaric tribesman.

Edit: I've played at least one of every canon playable race, including Ghoul and Shapeshifter, at one point or another. At the moment, I'm in a "Dwarves are great!" phase, but I'm sure that will pass.

[Lindt]

I played a free spirit once...
But mostly humans.

[The Grifter]

I usually pick humans. Easier to roleplay more convincingly, not such a large gap in the Karma Pool, and personally, I'm more of a cyber-punk fan than a fantasy one. I just think elves and dwarves and stuf fare kind of dumb. Bu hey, to each his own.

[mfb]

humans and orks, occasionally trolls. i don't think i have any active elven characters at all.

[nezumi]

Meh... I'll stick with halfling.

Cuz I'm the GM and the GM is whatever friggin' race he wants to be.

[hermit]

Elf (my main character), but I have a human semi-main character as well.

[DragginSPADE]

In Shadowrun I've played elves as far back as I can remember. Of course given my group's preference for long campaigns, I've only played two serious characters since the game came out. Ironically enough, when I play fantasy games I usually play a human.

[Garland]

Of the 3 characters I actually made with the intent of playing, 2 were elves. The only SR character I've ever used as a player was an elf.

As a GM, I try to keep the NPCs in their appropriate demographic proportions.

[Shockwave_IIc]

I most often play Orks, Though i do sometimes play Human or Elf.

Never Played a Dwarf in Shadowrun, and only once that i remember i played a Troll.

[Fortune]

Elves or Humans. No other race holds any appeal at all for me.

[Sharaloth]

I keep intending to make a Troll or Dwarf character, but I don't get the opportunity to play (as opposed to GM) very often. All the characters I've so far played are human.

[Endgame50]

Almost exclusively human.

I'll play the occasional elf for fun.

I'll play the occasional ork for a combat character.

[toturi]

Human (0 BPs is an advantage)

Elf or Dwarf, usually when I need something specific.

[Sandoval Smith]

You know, I realize I've never played an ork. I have played a dwarf with the 'human looking' edge before. It actually probably should've been a flaw, because as it got played out, everyone kept mistaking him for a twelve year old.

[Foreigner]

I voted "something odd" because I wasn't certain how my character should be classified.

My GM says that I should call him "Human"; actually, however, he's an Immortal Elf (a relatively young one; he's only about 200 to 300 years old at the most) with the "human-looking" Edge. I haven't written a full backstory for him yet, but my GM said that his thoughts were that he was a spike baby I.E. who, unknown to him, was descended from an Immortal Elf on one side, or both sides, of his family.

The idea was that he thought he was "normal"--that is, human--until an unexpected surge in the mana level near his birthplace activated the hitherto-dormant "immortality gene" in his DNA, simultaneously activating his magical ability (UGE, anyone?). After realizing that everyone he knew grew old and died while he didn't (why am I suddenly reminded of Duncan MacLeod? :P ), and that he was capable of doing things that most people couldn't do, he went underground, moving frequently and concealing his true nature. It wasn't until after the Awakening in 2011 that he realized that there were others like him.

The idea was to give a starting character plenty of power without having to explain why a several-centuries-old PC was still running the shadows.

--Foreigner

[JaronK]

I'm all over the map. Currently setting up to play a game as an elf, but I've made humans, elves, the occasional troll or orc, two dwarfs, a night one, a gnome, a waykambi, and a number of other creatures.

JaronK

[Crimson Jack]

I GM primarily, but when I play, I am one of the lanky fey from Africa. 8)

[AnotherFreakBoy]

I voted for something odd, because nothing else fit.

I have no real preference, and tend to play a bit of each race.

[badmudderfugger]

I GM mostly too, but I'm really a twink-munchkin at heart.

Troll Adept with Ranger-X Combat Bow :D

[Prospero]

I often GM, but over the years I've played a bit of everything. For some reason I keep playing more elves than anything else, though, so I chose that. It's kinda strange, because in other game systems I absolutely detest elves and the people who insist on playing them. But in SR they're cool. Or something.

[Chibu]

I like shifters because they're a cool concept, and the regen is nice ^-^, but, i'm not allowed to play those =(

So, i play humans, because elves are too expensive and eveyone thinks Orcs are ugly and i don't know how to play a troll. Dwarves are jus too short for me, though i have played one >_< and... yeah, that's about all... Variants are too goofy for my tastes (and don't fit with the ED backstory) so, i leave them out.

[mfb]

heh. i like metavariants because they don't jive with ED.

[Critias]

Elves, mostly. I've got a few round-ears and stumpies running around, an NPC or two (basically) trog...but mostly Elves of every flavor and variety.

[torzzzzz]

:D

Orks and trolls as know one else ever wants to play them and i like to be different, they always seem to play humans and Elves........ get alot of stick mostly along the lines of 'you are thick chummer' and had a nasty run in with the polly club to, they didn't like my troll much..... but now the are dead and can rot in hell....

LOL


torz x :sleepy: