Orc because it requires a lot of body language. I’m autistic and am not very good with understanding body language, so I certainly can’t play a character which requires a lot of body language.
Any elves beside Kathar, also Slizzar. IMO Elves are just aesthetic humans and kinda aren't really a thing. I just have trouble with their mentality and they always just slowly turn into an Ailor. I just have trouble with the snake-y sneaky and subtle mindset of SLizzar. They're fun for a week or two, but then I get kinda tired of being underhanded and mean.
I thought about this a bit, and I can pretty much play any race. I find different race characters quite interesting to play because they have such unique viewpoints. For this reason, I don't enjoy ailor that much, because I feel most ailor, especially nobles, are all the same character with 1 or 2 differences in their identity.
Allar, because they have so much potential too be like, "I'm better than you," but they're all like, "we contribute to the success of the Crown Alliance." Ailor Unionists because they win too much.
Slizzar. Constantly being sneaky and under-handed sounds a bit tiresome to me, although I might try one in the future. Lampar is another one. I think there's a lot of potential for the race if it were to be re-written, but as they are now, playing a dim-witted and cutesy anime character who can barely remember anything does not appeal to me.
I don't see myself being able to play orcs, urls, those bug people, or dwarves. I also apparently can't play any character who doesn't sport an undercut.
Anything who has a mentality I can't relate to. I have found it difficult to play a pure Altalar purely because I can't wrap my head around total superiority complex. It's also why I find it hard to portray an oppressive Ailor. All of my characters who I have tried to make my mains have all been raised in an exclusively Ailor environment, yet the community as a whole is composed of different races and cultures and they all mingle easily and in most instances, as equals. Enter my oppression simulator and people look at me odd when I role play out these characteristics. It makes finding role play outside of nobility near impossible. Pairing with my own spastic schedule I find it more worth my time to not role play than to struggle fitting into the environment at that time of day
I usually just play Ailor because they are just humans, and not limited by certain characteristics, they can act pretty much any way they want. I just don't feel I get that with other races.
Physically strong races. Orcs for instance. I like being small and quick too much. Lampar too... just TOO small and quick
I can play most races, as long the character peaks my interest. However, there are a few I cannot stand. Lampar, I cannot stand lampar.
Races/Niches of races that fall far too left or right in your basic Moral scale of Lawful/Chaotic. I like characters and races that have complexity to be grey to different stances, such as government, combat, right and wrong, etc. So races I could not play would have to be such like overly justice-complexed Drowdar, Zealous Ailor, chaotic Kathar, etc.
I can play any race, but I have trouble playing characters that aren't criminals, or anti empire. I do have a wulong character who tries to behave, although even he gets into trouble with the law at times.
I feel like I wouldn't be able to give any type of Allar justice in roleplay, even though I think they're really neat as a race. I don't think I could physically manifest one myself, the same with Maraya.
Elven races, Human, Maraya and Orc folk are all out of the realm of what I can play-- this includes Lampar/Rashaq. It's not because i'm obsessed with them (although I do love the design of Varran and Allar), but more because I don't enjoy aesthetically playing a race that's so terribly similar to what I am in-real-life. It's not so much their lore and style, but rather what they are in the first place. Plus, playing an Al-Allar allows for personality and decision proccesses that wouldn't normally occur with other races-- because they're.. weird. I suppose if it came down to it, i'd play a Yanar however. They would be entirely within my realm of playability. Which is why what EndersGameboy (that book is a good book btw) I don't quiiiite agree with, since it's written into their lore that half of their population is a bunch of nerdy paranoid... cowards, for lack of a better word more often than not. Wouldn't be too smart on their end to go fight the Empire that has already fractured them into a million pieces. I know what you mean though, if they all banded together, especially right now, they'd easily topple quite a lot of things in their path-- but they're too fractured politically to mount a large defense/offense. It'd be best in their eyes to support what can give them power in their own sphere, and that is the Crown Alliance-- atleast, it was/is.
