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[Robosaur]

If you are in adventure mode, you should have the option of playing as a member of a race, even if they were killed in Worldgen several hundred years ago.

In this case, most people will either consider you a living fossil or (more likely) be like "what... are you?"

[dwarfhoplite]

Doesn't make any sense to me. Also what would be the benefit of this?

[squishynoob]

I think it's already possible, if you play as outsider

[Robosaur]

Yeah I'm saying if you play as an outsider and your civilization has been dead long enough, people should freak out.

Especially people educated enough to know your species were once common.

It's mostly just fluff...

[Revanchist]

I suppose that makes sense. If it doesn't distract Toady from his goal, I could see him adding it in. That being said, it would need more going for it to make it onto his priority list.

[Aquillion]

There's even a trope for it!

[Revanchist]

Robosaur, do you have any explanation as to how this would benefit gameplay?

I believe you already metioned a storytelling aspect, but is there anything else?

[Robosaur]

Hmmm...

Necromancers want to study you, villagers cower in fear at you. Sounds kinda fun to me.

[Owlbread]

It would probably be fun.

[Beast Tamer]

It would, but depending on where you spawn would be jarring proof that your character is randomly generated when you click play.

If you play as a dead race, you should spawn in the ruins of a long dead city, rise from the caverns, or start on a beach somewhere with wreckage around you (a shipwreck). Any of those would give possible explanations of you sudden appearance if you think about it.

[Robosaur]

give this person a medal

also me but I don't deserve it as much

[RockBiterSon]

It would be easy to build your own narrative around it though. That's what you allready do with a normal character anyway. Why am I killing this vampire again?
The main dificulty with this would be all the possibilities that would have to be added in. Peasants cowering in fear and the like. It would be some work to give a whole bunch of different possible reactions for little gain. But let's be honest, the conversation engine in adventure mode isn't up for that complexity in the first place. You can't quiz a peasant about his world, just play trivia games with him. You can't even ask for specific types of quests, you can't even refuse a quest. If this were implemented at this point all it would be is replacing the "hello Dwarf" text with, "hello-what are you?" And then straight into talking about his niece who lives in The Bright Meadows as if he hadn't just seen something strange. Still, even if it were just that it would be a neat little detail.

[Neonivek]

Robosaur, do you have any explanation as to how this would benefit gameplay?

I believe you already metioned a storytelling aspect, but is there anything else?

Well it would allow you access to your favorite races even when they are killed off.

Mind you, I am kinda against this suggestion. Unless there is something in this world that says your race can still live on somehow... I think not having races available in certain worlds, and having ones not commonly available in others, is part of the gameplay that should be explored over having everything available always.

[Owlbread]

I think it's basically planned that if all the Dwarves were wiped out and only one survivor remained sealed inside a fortress that collapsed in on itself or something, you should be able to play that dwarf. If you can come up with a scenario where a long dead race comes back, you will be able to play as them I am sure. Just as much as in the future you will undoubtedly be able to play as your fortress' hammerer or even a goblin footsoldier or kobold thief.

[Beast Tamer]

Perhaps the whole randomly generated issue should be dealt with as well? Perhaps you don't choose your name, only gender, skills, attributes, and the peasant/hero/demigod.

Once you click play, you'd gain control of a historical character generated with the world or born later. Your selected skills and attributes could get explained away as training you're character did in anticipation of becoming an adventurer, with choosing between peasant, hero, and demigod the deciding factor of your starting social rank (peasant, former/current soldier, and noble respectively). You could see evidence of your previous life apparent in skills that you may have little use for (farmer, thresher) that would rust over time, family of your own that you can talk to, and previous friends and enemies.

Such a feature would add a level of realism, though it'd be similar to a lottery game. Select Demigod, choose your skills and attributes, then you take control of the local clown lording over a Human settlement.