mystery race : what would you hate the most ?

[WayneLigon]

I would not particularly like draconic folk as a core-book PC race, but they're still better than gnomes.

 

[Gloombunny]

Drow..because we don't need 4 elf races in the first PHB.

QFT.

I wanted to vote hobgoblins, but it's not in the poll.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Drow or Orcs. I don't want the classic bad guys of D&D as playable races in the PHB - it makes them nigh-unusable as "the bad guys you can slaughter without qualms", in exactly the same way Klingons were forever changed the moment Worf was added to the crew for Next Generation.

So they had to invent the borg. Which worked (steadily less well) until Seven of Nine.

OD&D suggested balrog as a PC race. There have been monsters-as-PCs books for 2e and 3e.

The wheel turns. All is in flux. New ideas replace old ones over and over until we're back at the beginning.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Voted vampires. I believe there's another rpg dealing with them.

I'd like to see catfolk, warforged and drow all given full writeups in PHB X.

You forgot kender in your poll. They get a lot of hate just cause they're a bunch of thieving gits.

 

[Robert Ranting]

Half-Vampire or some such.

As much as I hate the drow, they bother me far less than "halfbreed" races between humans and things that are not races. Vampires and Lycanthropes are people with afflictions, curses or diseases. Either you inherit the affliction from your afflicted parent, or you do not. There should not be a middle ground where you can get half the benefits of a condition while taking half the negatives. If a person wants to play a vampire or lycanthrope, by all means, let them play one, but make them take all the baggage that goes with it, good and bad.

Warforged, Orcs, or Anthropomorphic Animal races don't bother me so long as they don't produce a long list of half-races to go with them.

Half-Dragons, Tieflings, Aasimar, Half-Elves and Half-Orcs have such a long history in D&D that saying "no" to them would be like spitting into a hurricane, as much as I detest the notion of inter-species breeding in general.

Robert "Against Inter-Species Breeding" Ranting

 

[Li Shenron]

Half-undead don't make any sense, and vampire characters are already expired fashion.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

Half-vampiroids. They suck.

Drow, although I don't hate them on principle, are a tad overused, and would be one too many fey race in PHB.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Drow.

They're the only race I hold the slightest grudge against.

That said, I still wouldn't hate them much. They're just so abhorrently cliche...

 

[Green Knight]

Geeze, so many choices! I voted Warforged in the end, but my reasons for disliking all the of the following:

Catfolk - Gah, no Furries! Now that I've had a couple more seconds to think about it, I would've voted for them over Warforged. I'm sick of the idea of animal races. Especially with the association to Furries. Please take your yiffing to a game table that I'm not sitting at.

Drow - Well, for one thing, four Elf races in the PHB would be to much. Eladrin, Elf, Half-Elf, and Drow? On top of which, I'm just sick to death of Drow, for all the reasons listed above.

Warforged - Like someone else said, I don't care for the idea of T-800's in D&D. They're nice in Eberron, but baseline D&D? No.

Half-Vampire - Who needs the angst? Seriously, that's not something that belongs in the PHB. Tiefling's pushing the envelope as it is, but at least one can make the argument that you could find them in any given setting in pretty respectable numbers. But a Half-Vampire/Dhampir? Something like that is super-rare, and thus not an appropriate core race. Put it into the Monster Manual? Sure. But Player's Handbook? Hell no.

A Draconic race or Minotaurs would be cool, though.

 

[Elphilm]

Half-undead don't make any sense, and vampire characters are already expired fashion.

Half-undead may not make sense, but they do have strong folkloric roots.

(Doesn't mean I would like to see them as a player race, of course. )