Least Favorite (Core) D&D Race

[Hussar]

Ok, I really don't want to be blamed to turn this thread yet into another WoW bashing thread, so I'll simply rephrase my first post in here:




There, sounds better?
My apologies.

LOL

Given that, from all the past experience we got, and all that crap about "supplements with a dragon on the cover sells", one has to be truly naïve not to perceive that Dragonborn is in 4E mostly for marketing purposes.

Oh, now that I'll agree with. It was the whole "appealing to 9 y o WoW players" that I disagreed with.

 

[pawsplay]

Whether or not Dragonborn are "reptiles" is kind of a hard distinction to make, since they are imaginary creatures and reptiles are real. The question for me is wheter they breastfeed. Since I have a hard time picturing that, I just can't accept the dragonboobs.

Note: monotremes and marsupials do not have breasts, either.

 

[Hussar]

Whether or not Dragonborn are "reptiles" is kind of a hard distinction to make, since they are imaginary creatures and reptiles are real. The question for me is wheter they breastfeed. Since I have a hard time picturing that, I just can't accept the dragonboobs.

Note: monotremes and marsupials do not have breasts, either.

Actually, when you think about it, very few mammals have visible breasts in any case. I can't think of any quadrupeds other than cows. Even apes and monkeys don't particularly have highly visible breasts. So, smacking breasts on just about anything is anthropomorphic if you get right down to it.

In any case, I like boobies. hur hur hur.

 

[Juriel]

I hate the half-races. Since I had to pick just one poll option, I voted half-elves, since there's more than enough elves. Damn elf-wankery and multitude of subraces. And 4e keeps it up, with three different elves listed right in the three core books.

 

[Chainsaw]

I voted for Tiefling, but it could have just as easily been Dragonborn, I guess. Not really relevant to me and my players.

My players and I typically don't consider any race core except human. Maybe EVERY once in a while someone plays a non-human. We dislike high-fantasy campaigns where where every single town, no matter how big or small, is a virtual Mos Eisley Cantina of half-this, half-that dragon, dark elf, demon weirdos walking around like regular joes - this one runs a weapons shop, that one's the local wizard, etc. Humans are the dominant race, but even their settlements are few and far between. A dragonborn settlement? Just a legend, hidden up in the mountains somewhere. Finding it might take ten levels and result in campaign-world changing events, after which someone plays a dragonborn. Even then, he'd be one of a kind, a bizarre phenomenon attracting attention everywhere he went. Anyway, as a result, we haven't really generated too much ill-will against the other races. Simply put, they're just not that relevant. When we do run across one, everyone's excited and curious - not irritated.