Strongest racial animosity in D&D?

[Jon_Dahl]

Of all the intelligent races, which ones have the strongest hatred toward one another?

IMHO Gith*-Illithid animosity wins hands down. But are there any other races with comparable hatred?

*Githzerai/Githyanki

 

[Shemeska]

Of all the intelligent races, which ones have the strongest hatred toward one another?

IMHO githzerai-illithid animosity wins hands down. But are there any other races with comparable hatred?

The alignment opposites tend to despise each other, but two of them are hands down the worst, and the latter pair aren't opposites so much as they represent a civil war amongst their alignment itself for what it truly embodies.

Tanar'ri - Baatezu

Yugoloth - Gehreleth (Demodand)

 

[FireLance]

Tanar'ri - Baatezu

This one gets my vote. Nothing hates like evil, so when evil and evil hate each other...

 

[the Jester]

Of all the intelligent races, which ones have the strongest hatred toward one another?

IMHO githzerai-illithid animosity wins hands down. But are there any other races with comparable hatred?

Don't forget Githyanki - Illithid... in fact, it might be best to say Gith - Illithid.

Others that spring to mind, in no particular order:

Demon - Devil
Devil - Demon
Elf - Drow
Drow - Elf
Orc - Elf
Sahaugin - Sea Elf
Dwarf - Duergar
Duergar - Dwarf

That's what I've got off the top of my head, without thumbing through any books.

 

[GreyICE]

The Elf-Eldarin-Drow triangle is full of animosity, but the hate the Eldarin have for the Drow is pretty much unmatched.

The Elves are so busy hating each other they don't have time for much more than disdain for other races, although the Drow get a special spot.

Tieflings-Deva

Classic animosity, the two basically instinctually hate each other.

 

[Plane Sailing]

What, no elf-dwarf?

 

[Cadence]

Of all the intelligent races, which ones have the strongest hatred toward one another?

I'm tempted to go one-two-or-three-e-er vs. four-e-er, but I'm afraid it would devolve into an argument on whether both were intelligent!

But seriously, I'm guessing in most worlds there are some inter-denominational human rivalries that would make the list, and have the drow and illithid wondering how we hadn't killed ourselves off yet from stupidity.

 

[possum]

What, no elf-dwarf?

See, nowadays that's mostly just a rivalry of inter-party banter and a bit of one upmanship.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Gnomes vs Game Designers.














What?

 

[Manbearcat]

The D&D community versus 2e elves (and The Complete Book they rode in on).