Quote Originally Posted by Mark Hall View Post
Assuming you are making a character who makes use of the stats affected, why NOT play one of these? Or, for that matter, why play an elf if a human works as well?
Well, one reason why not to select one over the other would be those secondary benefits, small as they are. Not very strong mechanicaly, but it adds some flavor, which is (I am assuming) pretty much the number one reason one metahuman gets picked over another.

But like you said, you could easily just take the human over elf. Hell, if you wanted that elf feel, take Elf Poser. Yeah, if outed it may be bad (or not depending upon circumstances in-game) but with all of those Poser things you can pretty much play any metatype as any other metatype. Well... within limits. A dolled up troll made to look like an enormous elf would be hilarous. And a dwarf roughed up to resemble a tiny troll would be pretty good too.