(06-27-2017, 11:31 AM)Lydia Lightfoot Wrote: It's very rare that a character's race is even relevant to the player's RP - most players hardly even reference their character's race or what meaning it might have, and thus their character may as well be literally any race. Worse, the majority of roleplayers pay little heed to the lore of their racial choice in favor of merely doing as they please (there's heaps upon heaps of miqo'te who totally don't have any kind of tribal connection and are completely monogamous, for example).Â
The question to ask yourself is this: If my character is race X, to what extent is that even going to matter in the RP that's ahead? Think about the type of topics you like in RP, the "content" if you will. Will the racial choice even affect anything, aside from dictating the character's height range? If the answer is anything other than "It's going to be a major plot point for the character's entire run", then my advice is to avoid choosing a half-breed as your race. People will consider it to be a snowflakey detail, which can only be mitigated if it's a serious point of plot for the character over the entire time you play them. If it's just some background tidbit that doesn't ever come up, just play one race or the other and avoid people's OOC judgments.
If it helps, there's actually a decently long-standing issue with Chachan's parents regarding the fact he's dating a non-Lalafell and, to a lesser extent, someone not of Doma. The latter isn't as big of a sticking point since his mother is from Ul'dah... but it's definitely been an interesting series of RP trying to "convince" the stubborn old smith to accept the relationship.
... It's also been a bit of work on my end since I'm the one RPing the entire family and their interactions. Quite rewarding, though, and makes for good story. And vaguely relevant to the topic at hand because, if they have kids... they'll be Lalaqo'te or whatever the term for them is.
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