Favorite/Hated Race - and Why?

[doctorhook]

Favorite: It rotates between Dwarf, Eladrin, and Warforged.

Least favorites:

• Pre-4E gnomes: totally lacked concept.
• Shardminds: Wtf? Living crystal would be cool for a monster race, but I'm supposed to let PCs be these things?
• The alligator tails on 4E Tieflings: they look abnormal large at best, and like hideous cancerous growths at worst. Is it too much to ask that Tieflings be drawn without a third (useless) leg growing out of their backs?

Also, the artwork for Dragonborn kinda sucks: ugly scale-colours and strange hair. (Why do they have hair?) Also, I'm sure someone will mention dragonboobs.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Hmmmm... I wonder if there are Elf groupies, like there are Vampire groupies, and humans who believe they're an elf.

Wouldn't that be a kick playing a human who believes it's an elf or a gnome?

 

[pawsplay]

Hmmmm... I wonder if there are Elf groupies, like there are Vampire groupies, and humans who believe they're an elf.

Google otherkin.

 

[pawsplay]

Also, the artwork for Dragonborn kinda sucks: ugly scale-colours and strange hair. (Why do they have hair?) Also, I'm sure someone will mention dragonboobs.

But... dragonborn aren't reptiles! They're monotremes. Who have been grafted on the mammary glands of placental mammals by twisted sorcery... or something.

 

[Dioltach]

Favourite: humans, probably because I don't like playing anything too flash.

Least favourite (now here's an understatement): kender.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Least favourite - was gnomes all the way up to 3.5e, but they have been easily supplanted by Eladrin - who could have been great, but a race of teleporters from level 1 upwards breaks my branes. Far too wahoo for my liking.

Favourite? Dunno. Possibly elves (4e), possibly Kalashtar (3e original campaign setting only)

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Favorite fantasy race: Half-Elves. They were the most versatile in 1e, especially as we rarely got high enough in levels for the racial limits to matter much. And they've remained fairly versatile since. I've always liked the idea of Dwarfs, but very rarely play them.

Least favorite: A 3 way tie: Kender, Kender and Kender.

Gnomes: I don't know why everyone thinks Halflings are better, they're just a Tolkien ripoff. I dump them and leave the Gnomes.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Least Favorite: Halflings because I hate kender and it seems that the default personality archetypes for halflings tend to be kender and hobbits.

Favorite: "Magic humans". Why? Humans are boring, but when you give them pointed ear prostetics, some special abilities, then tweekb their stats alittle they become cool.

Gnomes: As long as they aren't WOW gnomes. However, I do agree tht they have no real niche since they double up on halflings and dwarves. Personally I like thinking of them as being a of shoot subrace of dwarves.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Google otherkin.

/facepalm

I was half expecting furry to pop up before that one.

 

[lostingeneral]

Favorite: Dwarves because of all the stereotypes. They are just nonstop awesome.

Least favorite: Bullywugs are a plague upon this earth.