Preferred hordes: What's your favorite evil humanoid?

[Djeta Thernadier]

I don't run a game, I play in one. We come across a lot of gnolls. They give us a good fight and I'd use them, if I were running a game.
I also think hordes of undead however, make quite menacing foes.

 

[Estlor]

I've always been a fan of the hobgoblins. They have this whole klingon thing going for them. Savage and bloodthirsty, but strangely honorable and structured.

That and they push goblins around and make them do the grunt work

 

[Harlock]

I voted for Kobolds with one caveat: They aren't just sneaky and evil, thay're pretty darn cute, too!

 

[Desdichado]

I found this tricky to respond to, but using D&D conventions as they are, I like goblinoid-esque "hordes" the best. Highly organized and militant societies that are LE in alignment and as "civilized" in their way as any other race. Kalamar did the goblinoid hordes right, IMO. Claudio Pozas with his "Pax Hobgoblina" pic is what hobgoblins are all about to me as well -- a darker and more savage, but just as relentless and enduring version of the Roman Empire.

 

[Tonguez]

I'm the only Aquatic vote!
Then again my campaign is set on Islands and Sahuagin have replaced Orc as the main enemy of civilisation

I also like Goblins (and the occasional Blue) for the cowardly skulking ambush type horde

Gnolls are also fun for the hunt them down through the jungle/across the plains type horde

Oh and Bugbears are now relatively peaceful brachiating apemen IMC (CN alignment if anything)

 

[Wombat]

Humans and goblins are my basics.

Orcs to bat clean-up

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'm a HUGE Kobold fan...but I also like using Humans and Orcs...

 

[Nifelhein]

Well, I love Orcs, use them all the way, not the weak, stupid version most would think, but the true orcs, those that defy heroism and threat pcs!

I used a more powerful kind once in a homebrew, they were lawful evil and so a lot organized and militarized, they were conquering humans and w]dwarven lands, they were CRUEL!

Now I am gonna DM Midnight, what calls for even more Orcs, powerful and inteligent, they rule the world under the shadows grasp, they are the local militia, they are the only ones allowed to carry weapons ad armors... Orcs are the law, PCs are the "terrorists"...

Orcs all the way man, after all I always loved the Uruk-hai!

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[AFGNCAAP]

D'oh! I completely forgot about undead! Very cool, & very viable en masse opponents.

Xvarts.

They're Blue, suffer from male pattern baldness and love thems rats.

Fear the Xvart hordes.

I completely forgot about Xvarts! I'm still having fun bashing them to bits while playing Baldur's Gate (tasloi, too). I can't recall for sure, but have they been officially updated for 3.0/3.5E D&D? If not, then how have they been unofficially updated?

BTW, weren't xvarts supposed to originally be some variety of kobold? Hard to see little balding Smurf-like foes descending from dog-like/reptilian humanoids.

Also, wsn't there a winged variety of Kobold/Xvart?

 

[Kesh]

Gnolls, all the way. I've got a societal structure outlined, some creation myths and religious beliefs, etc. I've really got a feel for the race, and how they would work.