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How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

@Raxacoricofallapatorius

That's so cool that you changed up the FC!

I feel like this discussion has already helped me think more deeply about what I'm saying indirectly about each character.

How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

I wonder - does anyone else have a character archetype (so, something that is somewhat defined and common in media) that they rarely see in RPs?

I feel like I almost never see "Big Burly Manly-man with Family they love to talk about" at all.

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Style Roleplay: Quest to End the Wars of Oblivion (always open)

You've been following me...and not a stalker...

*gasp*

I've got a fan!

@Idea

That depends on your content 👀👀👀👀👀

Anyway, yeah, only reading and voting are needed. Though discussion and feedback are also appreciated :)

@Idea

Sick. It's mainly because I'm running my own RP (always open ;)), so I don't have much time. This seems like an interesting way to put in a small amount of effort yet get invested at the same time. Props!

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Style Roleplay: Quest to End the Wars of Oblivion (always open)

I've been following you around for a bit 👀 (I'm not a stalker I swear) and this seems like it could be interesting.

It's like a thing where we just vote on the options, yeah? We don't need to do much else other than that? Like make sheets, etc?

How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

To further expand on the assumption that the species are individual species: in a setting where there is the possibility of half-breed characters to occur, those half-breeds would likely be treated very badly (for semi-viable reasons) by their respective societies, even though being a half breed is of course not their fault. It kinda brings a new weight to the trope of half-breeds being taboo but not otherwise suffering any actual genetic disadvantage.

@Raxacoricofallapatorius

I wonder if that's intentional - using the fantasy "races" to explore real world race conflicts and problems (interracial marriage, stereotypes, etc.)

How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

@Idea

Though, I suppose they might not be species, considering in most settings there are half-elves, half-orcs, etc. That means that they can reproduce and stuff, which fills the species definition.

How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

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I prefer to use race in fantasy because while species is also accurate, I feel that race implies different intelligent people-groups, and species can also mean to include animals. I only have a problem when “race” is used to describe different ethnic groups of humans because the human race is one race, one species, with ethnic and cultural diversity. Species can be used to classify an intelligent being or an animal, whereas race limits that category to intelligent species. And by intelligent I mean a species with culture and language.

@Raxacoricofallapatorius

That is a good point. I hadn't considered that.

How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

Fantasy settings make ethnic diversity easier in a way because in a world where racial tension is more like “human vs elf vs orc” ethnic variation in human characters suddenly doesn’t matter at all culturally, for the most part, but fantasy RPs are where I happen to notice the least ethnic diversity in human characters.

@Raxacoricofallapatorius

I know I'm deviating a bit, but it's pretty funny how they call elves, orcs, etc. "races" instead of, you know, "species".

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How do you feel about the level of character diversity you’ve experienced?

I also think that a good way to add diversity is on playing with strengths and weaknesses. I tend to stack weaknesses as opposed to strengths. Like, yes, my man can fight amazingly well but he's shithouse in a social situation.

@Stormflyx

Want to tag on here is something that is really important. I feel that Sanderson's Second Law (that limitations are what make a magic system interesting, not capabilities) applies to characters too. Since you're writing, your character can do anything htat you write them to. That's cool, but not super interesting and it definitely doesn't create conflict. What's the most interesting is what they CAN'T do, and how they work around that INcapability to achieve their goals. THAT's the essence of story.