Even better post, yourself.
I think the line has to be drawn somewhere before you get to RPing your character as being a race which is inherently more powerful than humanoids, lives forever, and has abilities and powers to which the character itself will have no claim.
...touché, you got me.
Obviously, one roleplaying such would have to be limiting. Going back to my Zaldormi argument, would a logical dragon...
A. Attempt to defuse an argument and settle it peacefully, as using any type of powerful magic would be a dead giveaway.
B. Summon incredible temporal magic and kill everyone in the inn.
Obviously, A is the correct answer, as B is a total metagame/godmod, and your name would be shunned all around the entire roleplaying community.
Plus, I was under the impression that most to all races excluding humans live for incredibly long amounts of time, and I could hardly see anyone ending their roleplay by death of old age. That being said, I would have thought that being a dragon hardly made any difference. But if WoW was traveling at, say, one day in real life equals one World of Warcraft year, then, yes, that would make extreme differences.
We kill dragons daily. They may be immortal, but they are not omnipotent.
The race you choose at character selection is your race. There's no more clear way to choose your race than the act of choosing your race. To work within your metaphor, if having an ordinary fel-addicted blood elf bores you, why not choose another race? Or play your character as something other than an ordinary fel-addicted blood elf. You can create variety in a character's backstory without resorting to making them an all powerful immortal. An all powerful level one immortal, to be clear.
I had thought that dragons were not all powerful, and that was not my intention to transpose upon the audience either. (Spell check, and I'm not sure if 'transpose' is the correct word.)
Once again, dragons should not use their incredible all powerfulness either as they would probably get in severe trouble with their elders, and, of course, as it would be difficult to convince everyone that "Hey, I'm an innocent human" when you just blasted a giant hole in the Stormwind Canals. I turn once again to the limits of godmode and significant changes to the environment.
You are correct, however, that different races are a good thing. I've roleplayed orcs that work as peons (Because peons are the most adorable thing in the world, of course.), insane undead, tauren seers, sandfury trolls, and blood elves. I've also turned to moon guard to roleplay the other races over there, also. I suppose being limited to ten races gets boring eventually, though there always are new ideas.
What, to you, is the difference between a blood elf who claims to be a dragon and one who claims to be the host of a Goa'uld symbiote which grants them immortality? How about one who claims to be a Priestess of Lolth, emissary of House Do'Urden? Or one who claims to be a cylon? Maybe one who claims to be a Science Officer of Starfleet from the planet Vulcan? How about a Blood Elf Death Knight who tells you, in mid duel, that he is your father and if you join him you can rule the galaxy side by side? Because Goa'ulds, Drow, Cylons, Vulcans, and Darth Vader are all exactly as possible for your character to be as dragons are.
I laughed at the various references, and I'll give you credit for that. However, the only flaw in this otherwise perfect argument is that Star Trek and Star Wars don't relate to World of Warcraft, and dragons do. However, I've seen various pop culture references like this roleplayed (I've seen a Varth Dader) and found them hysterical. Perhaps the only difference is that dragons relate well to Warcraft lore.
I will subject myself to the same scrutiny I offer, by inviting you to look at how my tauren hunter avoids Tauren stereotypes. I'm on wowwiki.com/User:Palehoof and I have a good bit of backstory written down there. I offer this to show that I welcome critique of my own backstory (I'm not the arbiter of what is RP, just a loudmouth about my opinions), but also to show that it doesn't take much to step outside the box of your selected race's accepted norms.
I read your background just now, and it is ingenious. I see absolutely no flaw in your backstory.
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