For me, I love the "zero to hero" power curve... the fact that I can start off as a local hero protecting a small village from goblin raiders, and by the end of the game I'm murdering the god of all goblinkind by throwing planets at him.
Much as I hate the proliferation of nearly identical "subraces", I love the variety and diversity of the really strange races (and monsters!) in D&D, especially across the "weird" settings of Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dark Sun.
Much as I hate the proliferation of nearly identical "subraces", I love the variety and diversity of the really strange races (and monsters!) in D&D, especially across the "weird" settings of Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dark Sun.