What is the most despised race?

[Thanee]

I think the "Drow hatred" comes mostly from those Drizzt wannabes.

Bye
Thanee

 

[XO]

Shc

...stands for Spontaneous Halfling Combustion ; the hobbit belons to LotR... Period. Halflings in my campaign are immediate ash.

 

[Christopher Lambert]

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

See what I mean? A race of pranksters and inventors ... oh wait, anyone else can do that anyway.

I played a gnome once, and it had nothing to do with RP. I just wanted a low-level wizard who wouldn't get killed right off the bat. Small size + Con bonus is nice. I never once used any of the gnome special abilities though (eg I never spoke to animals, I never used cantrips, I never used their +1 bonus to save DC for illusions, I wasn't an illusionist or a bard, etc).

Seriously, if I could see a gnome in a novel taken seriously I might be able to play one. I've only seen gnomes (outside of DLance, which hasn't helped the gnome image at all) is in a single FR short story, a humorous one, where the single faceless gnome was a member of a gang of halfling bandits. Really, if you can't take them seriously or even distinguish between gnomes and halflings, it causes you to wonder why they even exist in the game.

 

[Jupp]

Imagine the gnomes as a race following a militaristic philosophy (China+60s Russia/USA on steroids) and you have a serious problem in your game world.

 

[JoeGKushner]

(shrug)
I've never heard anyone raise a ruckus in meatspace about using Drow as villains. In fact, after hearing much whining here, I brought it up with my players and said, basically, "I plan on using Drow as villains for a while. Does anyone have a problem with that." They were like "bring it on."

I don't use drow a lot of up front villains. The players in my campaign have been target for kidnapping, assassination, and have had their villages sacked by allies of the drow but have only faced a few drow.

They're afraid of them and are really working on making the drow come to them as opposed to going to the drow. See, where the drow are... it's dark!

So I'm with psion on this. Drow still make great enemies.

 

[Li Shenron]

I think I'll vote for Half-Orcs. The old cliche' of "unaccepted folks" by either race isn't nice at all anymore, not to mention the hint of coming from violent mating Plus, the race design is too much limited to make them interesting characters, and they always end up being fighters, barbarians... or worse (monks).

Also I'm not generally very fond of the small races, but I don't really despise them.

 

[Darkness]

I think I'll vote for Half-Orcs. The old cliche' of "unaccepted folks" by either race isn't nice at all anymore, not to mention the hint of coming from violent mating Plus, the race design is too much limited to make them interesting characters, and they always end up being fighters, barbarians... or worse (monks).

Half-orc monks are great. One of my players always plays half-orc monks.

Well, that is...[sblock]Only if he's not allowed to play orcs. Otherwise he always plays orc barbarians.

Well, that is...[sblock]Only if he's not allowed to play a dire wolf, dire tiger or similar beastie. Otherwise he always plays such a big predator. No, not awakened unless we repeatedly hit him on the head until he relents.[/sblock][/sblock]

 

[Ferret]

Gah! You don't like gnomes? I voted Half-elf, it was the only one I could think of that wasn't liked much. Very ambiguous question though.

 

[Arnwyn]

In our group, gnomes top the list of most made-fun-of... but halflings run a very close second.

It seems my players are prejudiced towards anything in the Small category.

 

[Zweischneid]

I think the "Drow hatred" comes mostly from those Drizzt wannabes

'shrug'

I do have a sort of Drizzt wannabe in my group and got no problem with that either.

It's still alot fresher than yet another Conan wannabe, Legolas wannabe, Gimli wannabe, Merlin wannabe, King Arthur wannabe, Frodo wannabe, what-you-ve-got?




(though I got no problems with those wannabes mentioned above either.. it's D&D after all for christs sake)