D&D 5E What are your (up to 3) favorite character races? - Wizards Survey Duplication

[Argyle King]

Reasons?

Anecdotally, I've had a lot of negative experiences with problem players gravitating toward changelings as a way to be annoying and disruptive. The worst experience was with a DM of an Eberron game over-using changelings as a gotcha moment. "No, it actually wasn't the BBEG, it was his changeling servant!"

After already having a negative bias burned into my brain, further thought makes me question how a setting (Eberron) with political intrigue can function when potentially every social interaction could mean speaking to someone different than you expect. For similar reasons, I'm not enthusiastic about shapeshifters playing a role in upcoming Marvel movies.

Drow - I don't have anything inherently negative against them. Palette-swapped elves just isn't enough of a concept for me to get excited over.

Triton - I picked a third one to mirror my 3 picks for favorites. I've never played a triton character or had a concept to which being a triton seemed necessary.

My 3 favorites are half-elf, tabaxi, and lizardfolk.

 

[Yaarel]

Me either. I'm guessing that I'll be long dead by the time 50e rolls around, so I don't much care what they do at that point.

Heh, 50e is the 50th Anniversary Edition, in 2024. God-willing, youre still alive alot longer than that!

 

[Charlaquin]

Heh, 50e is the 50th Anniversary Edition, in 2024. God-willing, youre still alive alot longer than that!

I say 50AE specifically to avoid that ambiguity.

Also because I have a fondness for the 2000 Don Bluth film Titan AE

 

[Yaarel]

Anecdotally, I've had a lot of negative experiences with problem players gravitating toward changelings as a way to be annoying and disruptive. The worst experience was with a DM of an Eberron game over-using changelings as a gotcha moment. "No, it actually wasn't the BBEG, it was his changeling servant!"

After already having a negative bias burned into my brain, further thought makes me question how a setting (Eberron) with political intrigue can function when potentially every social interaction could mean speaking to someone different than you expect. For similar reasons, I'm not enthusiastic about shapeshifters playing a role in upcoming Marvel movies.

Drow - I don't have anything inherently negative against them. Palette-swapped elves just isn't enough of a concept for me to get excited over.

Triton - I picked a third one to mirror my 3 picks for favorites. I've never played a triton character or had a concept to which being a triton seemed necessary.

My 3 favorites are half-elf, tabaxi, and lizardfolk.

Fair enough. You did call them your least favorite, not ones you hated.

I think triton and merfolk can merge, able to form legs or one or two fish tails. Nixie and aquatic elf can similarly merge.

Since their origins, the drow have been Lolth and super-Dex. Since neither apply now, I am curious what the drow of Aeven and Loren cultures will look like.

A bad experience with impersonators can be hard to get past. It reminds me of old-schoolers getting neurotic about eargrub (?) when listening at doors, and pits in passageways.

 

[Yaarel]

I say 50AE specifically to avoid that ambiguity.

Also because I have a fondness for the 2000 Don Bluth film Titan AE

Heh, too many letters! And pressing the shift key too?!

 

[Mr. Wilson]

Human, Half-Elf, Halfling for me.

If you asked my wife, she'd say the Cat People (Tabaxi), the Bunny People (Harengon), and the Dragon People (Dragonborn).

 

[Greg K]

My least favorite out of those listed would be changeling, drow, and triton.

Well, at least, you can narrow your least favorite down to three.

 

[bedir than]

I put centaur as my third, but that's mostly because I want the hybsil back

 

[Aldarc]

I would also have potentially chosen the Eladrin if they were available as a choice.

 

[JEB]

I would also have potentially chosen the Eladrin if they were available as a choice.

They're folded into "elf" in 5E.