racial stats for a housefly

[Ashtagon]

I'm not sure a fly has any organs capable of anything even approaching a verbal component.

It not only lacks a mouth/tongue/jaws capable of human speech and language, but it doesn't even have a voice box (insects have a method of getting oxygen that doesn't actually involve anything analogous to a lung).

So, they can cast any spell that requires only somatic components. Material components will be tricky with no hands or manipulative limbs, and with no voice, verbal components are out too.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure a fly has any organs capable of anything even approaching a verbal component.

First, insects can produce noise via rubbing chitinous legs or wings together- a creative person could assert such actions could be manipulated by an intelligent being to produce sounds sufficient to satisfy the verbal component requirements of a spell.

Second, that whole "Magical Beast" type could arguably circumvent that. Even if you rule it doesn't, the text of Awaken specifically states:

An awakened tree or animal can speak one language that you know, plus one additional language that you know per point of Intelligence bonus (if any).

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

So, the real difficulty for a spellcasting fly would be material components, not somatic ones.

A housefly is always buzzing around dead creatures and piles of garbage, eating, regurgitating, re-eating. If any creature has an obscure spell component lying about, it's a housefly - tucked away neatly in it's gut .

I'm envisioning this bloated black insect with glittering red faceted eyes, buzzing its wings in eerie mimicry of real speech; spitting up a gob of spell component glistening with bug saliva; waving about its forelegs and antennae.... And then the component vanishes in a faint flash, and a wave of magic shoots forth and stays the brave knight's Keen Flaming +3 Flyswatter!

 

[TarionzCousin]

I know a GM who doesn't disallow drow elves in his campaign, he just kills them in the first minute of the game.

In short, have the player bring a backup character, IYKWIMAITYD!