How Do They Think?

Decide how members of the race
act, and lend some thought to the
race’s dominant cultural background.
These things determine the race’s
mental traits, including racial skills.
Here again, be careful to distinguish
features that affect play from those
that do not.
The most challenging problem is to
determine how the race thinks. This is
crucial if you expect people to roleplay
members of the race! Humanity’s two
primary motivations seem to be sex
and material comfort. Other races
might not share these drives. Of
course, any biological creature must
feel some instinct to preserve its young
and itself, or the race will vanish.
Races that lack this drive would have
psychologies that humanity would
find truly alien.