Which race is the hardest to play and why?

[musashi]

Muls. Hands down.

Hunting you down and killing/force storing you is a mini-game for the rest of the player base entertains themselves with.

[Malken]

Half-elf is probably the easiest one for me. I just need to not take my meds for a day and I can rock them awesome!

Dwarf would be the hardest.. Bald..? *shivers at the thought*

[kayza]

This is an old thread but I was reading it recently and liked it!

Humans..
I think the "lesser" races are easier to play because they have some very nice guidelines to base your character around from the start. 

I think the reason why elves are hard is mostly OOC reasons of just frequently being a solitary role.
Half-elves can get rather emotional to play for a long stretch of time.

But still I am going with Humans!
I actually think I have not played a human since coming back from playing here.

[Scarecrow]

Halflings.

[Cind]

Dwarves. No hair.

[evilcabbage]

dorfs. focus is a killer for me, although my ooc focus is to repeatedly squash the entire pbase into a bunch of mushy insects, i can't translate that to a dwarf without it being fucking ridiculous.

seriously, who wants a dwarf running amok whose focus is "slaughter thousands of humans, half-elves, humans, elves, half-giants, muls" WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT EVER DOING IT? Or "The dwarf whose focus is to collect one of every stone AND have them in his possession"

Then he believes hisf ocus is done, right? Only the imms added these neat new gems and stones to the game...

How many dwarves promptly went psychotic when they realized they'd never actually completed the focus?

[Rhyden]

Half-giants; I find it hard to rp their mindset for long periods of time.

That said, there have been some really amazing half-giants around lately, tempting me to reconsider.

[Clavis]

I think that the hardest race to play is the one that the player doesn't wish to play. Though often when they suddenly grow weary of playing the others and role up a pc of the race the don't want to the find it eventually satisfying. Mostly do to having to once again think, and also to experience a new viewpoint on the game.

[Dar]

I want to play a Mul very much. But I still think it is the hardest one to play and still fear I would not be able to portray the mul appropriately to play it.

[Narf]

Half-giants; I find it hard to rp their mindset for long periods of time.

That said, there have been some really amazing half-giants around lately, tempting me to reconsider.

Half-giants are really hard to keep the balance I think. I struggle with playing an appropriately mentally challenged character without just resorting to 'comic relief' style stupidity, and it is hard. Pop culture gives us so few role models for half-giants

[Ami]

As a rather stupid person, I find Half-Giants very easy to play!

[Kol]

As a rather stupid person, I find Half-Giants very easy to play!

+1.

Dorf. Foci are odd, and fairly game driving, which is hard for me.

[Wolfsong]

Dwarves are all about making lists, and following them point-by-bullet-point.

Right?

Because if that's the case, I basically am a dwarf IRL.

[Narf]

Dwarves are all about making lists, and following them point-by-bullet-point.

Right?

Because if that's the case, I basically am a dwarf IRL.

I hope you don't have to justify to yourself why a bathroom break will help you achieve your next bullet point before you take one IRL.

[Wolfsong]

 

[Zoan]

Also, Wolfsong, you are very short.

[Tuannon]

Short is relative.

I would tend to think half elves are difficult to play, elves are a bit "us vs them" with a gypsy sense of ownership.

Humans are pretty straight forward, but breeds aren't a blend of both, they're something wierd from what I have seen.

I tend to play humans, I think in 8 roles I have played one stump who lasted about 2 days before I got bored and stupid.

[Beethoven]

Half-elves aren't -that- hard to play. I've known quite a few humans with breedlike characteristics. Just take those aspects and exaggerate them. IMO, there's nothing really alien about a breed--they're just people with a certain complex that kind of dominates their lives. Dwarves, on the other hand...I doubt I'll ever be able to play one.

[Synthesis]

The most difficult thing about playing dwarves is that when their focus points them in a direction you know will end in death, you have to let them go.

[MeTekillot]

Played correctly, every race is harder to play than human, just in different ways.

[Marauder Moe]

The most difficult thing about playing dwarves is that when their focus points them in a direction you know will end in death, you have to let them go.

Not sure this is true.  Dwarves have a sense of self preservation.  Can't finish your focus if you're dead, after all.

[MeTekillot]

I think he's referencing the player knowing that this is gonna get the dwarf killed, but the dwarf does not know it.

[Wolfsong]

That's the vibe I got, too.

[Marauder Moe]

Well that's the case for characters of any race, no?

[Wolfsong]

OOC: That NPC will so kill my ass.
Human: "Trying to ride that Roc is probably suicidal and I shouldn't do it."
Dwarf: "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF I JUST TRY HARDER." / mount roc