I’ve never chosen which races I play based on racial abilities, but rather aesthetics. While that certainly flies in the face of my other “power gamer” tendencies, it’s something I’m fairly adamant about. Throughout my role-playing career (both on table-top games and in MMOs), I’ve played some variety of elf whenever possible. However, I’m also an “alt-aholic”, which means sooner or later I’ll be forced to roll something other than an elf simply because some classes aren’t available to elves.
For example, I have a Human Mage, Human Warlock and Human …

I’ve been doing some research lately into WoW RP, hoping to take some of my own advice and also get back into the escapism that RP provides (which I used to thoroughly enjoy back in my table-top days). I’ve skimmed a lot of sites over the past couple days and many of them have provided a wealth of information for noobs to the WoW RP scene. I’d love to list them all here, but that would literally take all day, and suffering from information overload (as lore/RP research is often …