I agree with most contributions about the choice of races for non-human PCs to be mixed with humans. Not all races are suitable, but many are: ducks, baboons, newtlings and superior trollkin are, since they manifest many psychological traits in common with humans (yes, they do!). Melo Yelo is among the best examples of this sort of non-human PCs - and he _can_ be roleplayed well. I have even roleplayed and GMed young wandering elves to some degrees of success, though this creates some difficulties. Dwarfs are to be barred in most cases.
However, you can always roleplay non-humans in a pure non-human group, it is just a problem of how skilled the GM and the players are in dealing with Glorantha. I have started my Gloranthan experience by running an all-troll campaign with success for years, so I know it can be done - but this is because I had a lot of cultural background available in official materials. Even their spirit cults are described in detail! This is the reason why I complained about the lack of information about the elves: I know it can be done with Aldryuami, too, but one should write down a lot of information that is already freely available for the Uz. Has anyone ever run a year-spanning all-aldryami campaign? A friend of mine did, but since it was his first experience as a GM, not only with Glorantha, I was told it was only a partial success and stopped soon. I think that the real problem with running an all-aldryami campaign is the lack of a detailed elfpak, not an intrinsic unsuitability to becoming PCs. If we had enough published material we could roleplay real elves, not just "humans in green clothes". Hint: could anybody put all the late contributions together and write something for Tales or Tradetalk? That would be useful.
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