A small matter of hins

[Blunkanthrust]

I was wondering as I often do about mundane matters, whether or not it would be acceptable to RP a hin as a child of human/elven/half-elven decent instead of directly playing them as a halfling/hin?

To me it would make sense but I figured it would be good to get an official response, incase anybody else wondered this in the future.

[Eldebryn]

If I recall correctly all characters on the PW are required to be at least 16 in human years, so you can't play a child IC.

[Simian]

Some might accept that you are playing a child, however, I think quite larger number of players would just think your character is either simply insane, or suffering from some sort of heridatory birth defect.

Oh, I am not a member of the staff... but... it is how players would react. >_>

[Blunkanthrust]

Oh I know I agree most people would play it off like the hin was mad, but a good RP'er would hopefully see what the person is doing and allow the player their creative freedom. I don't personally have any plans to play a child character any time soon, it was more a general question incase anyone wondered about it in the future, or wanted to RP two characters having a baby etc...

[BlueHero45]

The last time this came up the staff was against it. Play whats on your character sheet is the normal response. Am not a member of the staff, its up to them for the final answer

[Rainbow Prism]

We have an answer for this kind of question from staff: RP what is on your character sheet.

[kewell1000]

RP is always good but realism have to maintained (Fantasy realism that is )
How would you justify your fighting skills unless never got into battle?

A Child should have strength way lower that 8 and the same goes with intelligence, wisdom and constitution.

In my oppinon you would break the RP of your character every time you ventured into a fight.

With that said all characters are some sort of adventurer (unless they venture into monster hunting which I think 99% are at some point). And it would be unrealistick to have a child as an adventurer.

So even though your thoughts are creative and trying to enhance your RP experience I actually think it's bad RP as it's completely unrealistick.

[Charraj]

In general, we have a "play what's on your sheet" policy.
In the past, for DM-supervised one-shot events, hins have been allowed to be NPC children. But for a PC, a hin should be a hin.
*nodnod*