D&D General Friday Fun: What Are Your Top 3 Playable Species

[Reynard]

So if you voted for Tiefling, why? What is compelling about them to you?

 

[Scribe]

So if you voted for Tiefling, why? What is compelling about them to you?

1. They have that dark and edgy angle.
2. They have some neat history.
3. An element of history/background/hook, from birth.
4. Pre 4e, some flexibility in terms of appearance.

 

[Silam]

By far my most frequent pick over the years were elves.

And I have a soft spot for halflings, or hobbits as we prefer calling them at my table (IP be damned). It’s just so cool to ponder about the fact that a cross between any creature and a halfling always results in a 100% halfling offspring. That’s the consequence of carrying only dominant genes. "Grandpa was a bronze dragon on my mom’s side, grandma was a pit fiend on my dad’s side", said the purebred hobbit.

Besides these two, I would have picked troll, but I don’t see them in the list. I played only one, but all the way into epic levels, and it was a memorable campaign.

 

[jmartkdr2]

So if you voted for Tiefling, why? What is compelling about them to you?

Being the unappreciated, misunderstood outsider. The one shunned by society because they’re different, but who could contribute if they were accepted.

It’s an extremely popular trope (think X-Men and all of its cousins) because it’s an extremely common experience. Lots of people relate it to queer experience, but really any teenager who felt under appreciated can relate.

Not even one of my favorites but it’s a contender for the most popular theme in fiction.

 

[Reynard]

Being the unappreciated, misunderstood outsider. The one shunned by society because they’re different, but who could contribute if they were accepted.

It’s an extremely popular trope (think X-Men and all of its cousins) because it’s an extremely common experience. Lots of people relate it to queer experience, but really any teenager who felt under appreciated can relate.

Not even one of my favorites but it’s a contender for the most popular theme in fiction.

I have never had a player whose tiefling character was such an outcast.

I think people mostly like the aesthetic.

 

[Tonguez]

I have never had a player whose tiefling character was such an outcast.

I think people mostly like the aesthetic.

Yeah theyre the new Half-Elf

 

[DammitVictor]

I'm really not going to able to narrow it down to three. I go hard for human and half-orc, githzerai and githyanki, and the really nonhuman stuff like thri-kreen/xixchil, lizardfolk, and warforged. Hobgoblin and bugbear. I really liked tieflings in AD&D, but modern D&D ruined them.

 

[Scribe]

I have never had a player whose tiefling character was such an outcast.

Just 5e or all time?

 

[Reynard]

Just 5e or all time?

I do not recall anyone ever playing one in one of my campaigns pre-5E.