Racial Identification
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:20 pm
Re-institute the race marker with *looks*, and simply have 'secret' races show as the race the player chose on character creation. So a human-model dragon would show as Race: Human.
Currently playing a character who considers half-elves, humans, and elves very differently, and it's near-impossible for me to judge an appropriate response when I can't tell race on sight (especially half-elves) because I, personally, don't entirely know the models and with half-elves they're indistinguishable anyway. Particularly when they're covered in buffs.
I appreciate there's a measure of IC disguise but it feels like the thing denying my character from knowing is an OOC factor (namely intimate knowledge of the mechanical models), and that is jarring.
Currently playing a character who considers half-elves, humans, and elves very differently, and it's near-impossible for me to judge an appropriate response when I can't tell race on sight (especially half-elves) because I, personally, don't entirely know the models and with half-elves they're indistinguishable anyway. Particularly when they're covered in buffs.
I appreciate there's a measure of IC disguise but it feels like the thing denying my character from knowing is an OOC factor (namely intimate knowledge of the mechanical models), and that is jarring.