What is the most despised race?

[mhacdebhandia]

I mean, really, who's going to use a race of barbarous half-gorrilla, half-spiders with a straight face?

*looks around*

*raises hand*

I think that they'd be pretty excellent antagonists for a certain kind of pulpy campaign - just imagine a horde of them swarming out of a ruined Aztec-style pyramid in the deep jungle, howling for the blood of the PCs.

 

[Imret]

i'm with you up to the marrash. Composite monsters are not only a standard of real world myth...but I believe the marrash specifically *is* from real world myth. And animal men are extremely popular with a large subsection of gamer society, IME...as well as having a great deal of precedent in real world myth themselves.

Doesn't mean I've gotta be fond of the composites. YMMV, but I just don't find them as spooky as other monsters. If my choices are between rejects from Dr. Frankenstein's taxidermy course and something more along the lines of the meenlocks (I sure hope I spelled that right, about 200 miles from my books for the holidays; you know, the "kidnap and torture humanoids to turn them into more of their kind" guys), I'll grab the freaky little buggers anyday.

My players, however, will still run screaming in mortal terror from the first sign of meenlock activity.

As for the beastfolk, well...sure, I use them. But very, very few official ones (unless you count what I did to bugbears...); pretty much just predators. I prefer to play up the animal side, so they're not really appropriate as PC's...unless it's the kind of campaign where stopping to eat the fallen isn't party-disrupting behaviour. You think peasants are afraid of wolves? When wolves have hands and a sense of cunning in the hunt, you stay inside at night.

 

[Lyriel Aelorothi]

The drow are the most vile minions of darkness in existence...atleast, in my campaign they are.

 

[Darkness]

Gez, it's shocking that they' do that. I weep for humanity.

Hi rounser!
[sblock]

Vaguely amusingly given this discussion, it appears that someone cottoned on to this and "fixed" the lizardmen alignment problem with the Lizard King in the original Fiend Folio. Ah, much better - no more "Danger at Dunwater"-type misunderstandings to be had. In fact, I can't think of a better example of what evil alignment does for the game.

Yeah, I remember these guys. Nasty stuff. Reminds me - according to the current MM, drow are usually NE even though their goddess is CE.[/sblock]

Psion, preach it brother...

 

[ivocaliban]

Bunch of gnome-haters! May Garl glue your spotty bottoms to the seats of your porcelain thrones!

 

[scourger]

elFRealms

That is funny! It explains everything I've learned about the Forgotten Realms for the past 15 years, which isn't a lot but feels like too much at times.

 

[Buttercup]

Why do I have to pick just one? I don't really care for any of 'em except humans and dwarves.

I guess the height of my hate, so to speak, is reserved for gnomes and drow.

 

[Neo]

For me id say Half Elves...not because of what they are or where they come from..but because from a game standpoint in comparison to the other races there is precisely ZERO incentive to play one.

 

[scourger]

gnomes by a nose

When I read the title line for the poll, I presumed the poll was about PC races. I saw the options beyond the PHB races and presumed they were choices from campaigns and sourcebooks I don't own or play. So, I thought of the one race that none of us has played in 4 years of d20 play--gnomes. In fairness, I did play one briefly, but only because my dwarf was reincarnated into it. Had I known I would be beardless, I would have stayed in the Halls of Moradin!

Come to think of, I don't believe I've ever played a gnome in any edition over 24 years of play. The only time I remember seeing gnomes in play was a NPCs of another DM who loved illusions and upstaging the PCs.

I would like to play a drow one day. I would even go for an all-drow camapign. But, I can't even get my players to play a drow-themed module; so I'll probably have to get that variety somewhere else.

 

[Testament]

OK, that's it. I'm convinced that I was wrong on mty assesment of Drow (not sarcastic). I'll put it down to overanalysis and coincidence.

I still hate them for all the other reasons. That and their permanent association with elForgettable Realms.