Races You Always/Never Use

[Xethreau]

What races always appear in your campaigns? What races never appear?

For me, I always use humans, all three elf races, and dragonborn.

I have never had a player at my table play a dwarf, playtests non-withstanding. I just don't think I like dwarves that much!

-edit-
I also apparently like goblins/hobgoblins/bugbears a lot more than I do orcs/half-orcs.

 

[the Jester]

I don't generally use a lot of races that are weird or nonstandard, though I'll often allow the first player who asks about a specific, not-quite-banned race to play one. (Examples of things like this: Shifters, shardminds, wilden.)

 

[fba827]

Personally, 90% of the time I play humans.
The remainder of the time i might play something else if i can think of a good story-concept for the racial choice (example, i never really thought i would play a warforged but for one PC for a few sessions i had an idea in my head that just seemed to fall in to place so i went with it and enjoyed it a lot)... but yeah the more weird the race idea, the less likely i am to think of a good story for it.

Within my game group as a whole, I think dwarves and humans might be the most used race overall.... though i say that without doing the actual research to tally, just going from memory.

 

[Storminator]

I'm running a Goblins in Eberron campaign right now. Since there isn't a lot of support of the goblinoids, I allow liberal reskinning. We've seen goblins, bugbears, humans, halfelf, genasi, mul, goliaths, drow, githzerai, kalashtar, dwarf, changeling, tiefling, and a revenant.

The previous campaign had dwarf, eladrin, halfling, dragonborn.

Pretty wide spread!

PS

 

[Herschel]

80% of my characters are Genasi. I like the flavor and the stat spread even fits a lot of what I like to play (Swordmages, Warlords, Clerics and even Warlocks). My others are Deva. I have a Dwarf I've played in every edition so far but I've pretty much avoided dwarves, elves and halflings in 4E.

At my table though I've seen pretty much everything.

 

[Lindeloef]

Sadly the only race I use is the DM race...

 

[The Human Target]

As a DM my players have noted I use a lot of dwarf/halfling/gnome NPCs.

I must have a deep love of short people.

I don't think I give dragonborn or elves enough love, which I'm going to try and rectify in my new campaign.

 

[was]

never seem to be any gnomes or shifters

 

[Blue]

I'll play whatever strikes me, and like running oddball ones since they have more new aspects and aren't retreads. My favorite race has to be halflings, but the last one I got to play in an ongoing campaign was back in 3.5

 

[renau1g]

Never seen Bladelings.....