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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SensoryThought" data-source="post: 5839778" data-attributes="member: 6687996">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.</blockquote>