What 'other' races have you played

[Brazeku]

Sorry about the poll folks, it seems it can't be changed. But I'm happy to see that the spirit of playing strange things is alive and well.

And wow - 7 headed pyrohydras, will-o-the-wisps, bipedal basilisks, mongrel-golems, fiendish trolls, squirrel folk, artifacts, elemental blends and harpy bards - that's pretty wild stuff. As for dragonborn, well I'm glad they may go core.

Catfolk (are rakasta a type of catfolk? I don't exactly recall), even though they are less 'odd' nowadays, way back when I remember the only real offering for cat people were the wemics, which were similar to the centaurs. And I remember the Hengeyokai, I played a crab one once. I have no idea what an aspis drone is. An insect?

I don't know who else feels this way, but I think the ability to play strange things is one of the reasons I like to be the DM. I feel somewhat disappointed when some of my players stick to humans and elves, but everyone has their preferences, and if they're having fun that's the most important and rewarding part.

 

[Drowbane]

Demons: yes
Angels: yes (if you count half-celestial-avenging-angel-wannabes)
Elementals: no
Lizardfolk/Draconics: kobolds & half dragons (and half-dragon kobolds!)?
Various people with animal heads: Naw, not my bag.
Goblinoids: I've played Hobgoblins, goblins, and blue (or two?). I like base goblins, I've never understood the point of Bugbears. Hobgoblins are cool though.
Construct creatures (robots and cyborgs included): Warforged & Maugs
Undead: yes, several.
Plant beings: nope
Incorporeal or pure intelligence: ghost.
Regular monster, not otherwise specified: Young dragon(s)
Bug-types: Kreen were one of my favorite races of 2e... I've only played one in 3e.
'Other' (the weirdest of the weird!): Hmm... Mindflayer count?

 

[megamania]

Humans
Dwarves
1/2 Lings
1/2 Elves
1/2 Orcs
Gnome (once)
Muls
1/2 Giant
Full Giant
Thri-kreen
Warforged
Shifter
Awakened Golem
Werewolf
Goblin
Kobold
Elemental humanoids (use of templates)
Enhanced human


I'm sure there are more. Never did a fiend or angel or pure elemental.

 

[tvknight415]

Cyborg - a Shadowrun street samurai 15 years ago. His essence was the same as Bluto Blutarski's grade point average.

 

[sckeener]

I'll echo the Thri-kreen, but I've also played

Pixie (Pirate! Arrr!)
Vampires (Several different types of..several that had kids)
Satyr/Succubus
Ghoul
Aquatic Elf
Melnibonian
Half-Dragon (red)/ Drow
Mongrelman
A humanoid Bat (size small)
Half-fiend (basically the descendant of an evil god's minion)
Goblin
Orc
Winged-Folk (AD&D 1st)
Gith (both/all)
Half-Giants

(I'm probably forgetting several odd ones...)

 

[Richards]

I have no idea what an aspis drone is. An insect?

Yep. An aspis starts out as a larva (looking pretty much a giant maggot), then grows into a drone (which resembles a humanoid weevil). The aspis nest is ruled by an aspis cow (the equivalent of a queen bee), although it looks pretty much like an oversized maggot).

Johnathan

 

[diaglo]

rot grub

 

[WayneLigon]

Needed to have been a multiple-choice poll In previous editions of D&D, I played a dryad with a ring that allowed her to leave her tree, a good-aligned wolfwere, a goblin, and some sort of half-genie thing.

 

[TerraDave]

Go ahead and make the new poll with:

-more choices (there where supposed to be about 130 playable races or race varients in 3rd ed)

-allowing for multiple choices (my feeling is that a few people play many varieties)

-allow for none of the above

 

[sniffles]

I played a minotaur once. My first-ever 3.0 character. The GM sort of cobbled together some rules for playing a monstrous race as a PC, since the only books available at the time were the PHB and DMG. I'm not sure if even we had MM 1 yet at that point.

I've always wanted to play something more unusual, but in general our group tends to stick with the PHB races.