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What happens when you don't let players pick their race?
Plenty of people play games to escape their real lives, and the character creators some games offer let us imagine ourselves in whatever image we'd like: realistic or idealized, some version of ourselves. Or someone entirely other -- not just a chance to invent your very own fantasy character, but to live as them, in a sense. I know a couple where one partner always builds one edition of the other in any game they play that allows for character selection. Isn't that romantic?
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Pretty cool idea. To me that would make for a more interesting time in an RPG. Plus it's only an avatar. Maybe I'm the only terrible person to always push "randomize" a few times and then go with it?
Hah, in all honesty I do the same. Personally for me, I look more at facial features than the color of the skin however.