D&D Race You Hate the Most

[SeRiAlExPeRiMeNtS]

Well at least everybody hates kenders, it is something :-D

 

[FireLance]

How do dragonborn make it into third place? I always assumed they are lizardfolk with a breath weapon, but that couldn't cause that much backlash.

Because they only rose into prominence rEcEntlEE.

 

[Mokona]

There is a lot of hate for the dragonborn. What would a lizard race look like that would not draw so much hate? Is such a thing possible?

Me, I wish they would have used plain old lizardfolk or cleaned-up trogs.

 

[FireLance]

There is a lot of hate for the dragonborn. What would a lizard race look like that would not draw so much hate? Is such a thing possible?

Yes, if it fulfills two criteria:

1. The females have no breasts.

2. The race is not in the first PH.

 

[SensoryThought]

My number 1 is drow - they are great for a npc enemy, but the 'good drow' has become a sad cliche. I'm sorry, but for me drow are a forbidden pc race and need to be left in an ra salvatore novel where they belong.

My number 2 is common to many - dragonborn. While I like other new 3e/4e races, the warforged and changelings of Eberron have world context that the dragonborn lack. There is also something horrific about lizard men (which is basically what they are with a breath weapon). In fantasy and sf, lizardmen are traditional enemies that embodied cold bloodedness. Or the twisted draconians of dragonlance, which they also remind me of.

They are the only D&D race removed from my game in a sense. I have kept the race but houseruled it the offspring of humans and good dragons in human polymorphed form. They look human (not lizard man) and cannot take the breath weapon (only the dragon fear). They tend towards being warlords and draconic sorcerers.

Most of the other new races including shardminds (I dislike psionics), wilden and pixies don't do it for me, but I don't have a visceral hate like I do for drow and dragonborn.

 

[KarinsDad]

Yes, if it fulfills two criteria:

1. The females have no breasts.

2. The race is not in the first PH.

Tieflings are not in the first PH.

I think some of the hate for Dragonborn stems from the fact that WotC for all intents and purposes put a mini-dragon race into the PHB. Many people play the game to kill dragons and their ilk, not to play one. Some players started playing the game when Dragonlance came out (or played through that timeframe), so a Dragon race might seem like playing a more traditional monstrous race like a Hobgoblin.

If one looks at the current list, traditional races have 8 to 36 votes with an average of 22 (9%). Non-traditional races have 55 to 111 votes with an average of 75 (31%). That's over 3 times the average. Some of this is to be expected, but I also think that WotC went a bit too crazy with 4E and monstrous PCs.

Tiefling at 68 is 28%. Not nearly as high as the Dragonborn at 97 (40%), but still coming in the middle of the pack. I think the reason Tiefling is better received is because it has the Warlock natural synergy and people like playing Warlocks. Playing a Dragonborn Paladin just doesn't seem as natural and hence, doesn't quite have the draw.

 

[Lwaxy]

Don't know, we had quite a few dragon/pseudodragon PCs over the years and didn't need dragonborn for that.

 

[FireLance]

Tieflings are not in the first PH.

They are in 4e.

 

[Pour]

At least we all find common ground in our outstanding hatred of kender and avians. That's... something.

 

[Shemeska]

I think the reason Tiefling is better received is because it has the Warlock natural synergy and people like playing Warlocks. Playing a Dragonborn Paladin just doesn't seem as natural and hence, doesn't quite have the draw.

I'm more inclined to think that's it's because tieflings have been a PC race since 2e, and they got a lot of popularity out of their rather entrenched place in Planescape.