What race can you not bring yourself to play?

[Angel Tarragon]

Halflings and gnomes. I don't know whay but I never want to play any of the 'small-folk'.

 

[IronWolf]

However, with the introduction of Eberron, I can't seem to find the will to play a Warforged.

Ah! Forgot the Warforged in Eberron. I would play a half-orc well before I ever played a Warforged. In fact for the day I eventually get talked into playing Eberron my character is very likely to have an extreme dislike of them.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm not too big on creatures with speed 20 (aka halflings and gnomes), but I'd be willing to play them for a specific character concept. The one race I don't see myself playing is half-orc. Full orc'd be kind of cool. But half-orcs? No thanks.

Demiurge out.

 

[Voadam]

No half races or wee little folk for me. So PH races leaves human, elf, and dwarf, and I'm fine with that pallete of choices for core rules games or the tons of interesting options from other sources.

 

[Dyne]

Half-Elves. Practically completely worthless. All they get are a few bonuses to skills. If I wanted a boost to my skills, I'd play a Human, where I'd have extra skill points to spend on whatever skills I wanted. That, and a nice bonus feat.

I can't comprehend why anyone would want to play them except for flavor reasons.

I like Elves, though (I don't play them as arrogant asses, though, and I hate it when people do), and pretty much all the other races. They all have their uses, but I just can't see a good use for a Half-Elf. Perhaps if they had an ability adjustment, maybe a boost to Charisma (although the designers seem against giving a bonus to a mental stat for PHB races...).

 

[The Shaman]

Half-anything. Or elves.

Thank you, no.

 

[candidus_cogitens]

Hal orcd, I've never played one of these things in any edition of the game. I always felt they were badly defined.

What do you mean by "badly defined"?

I've sometimes felt that it is problematic to have a "race" of creatures who are only likely to occur through rape. Perhaps what needs to be defined is whether these are cast-off orphans of rape-victims or are they the descendents of such--a whole community of mixed orc and human heritage.

By contrast, half-elves are generally thought to be the product of a love between an elf and a human.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I'm not a big fan of Gnomes. I don't know why, I don't really have anything against them, but they just strike me as an unnecessary race. There are already halflings and dwarves, why do we need something that (to me) is basically a cross of the two? And try as I'd like, I don't think I'd be able to take a gnome PC of mine seriously. I don't care to run them as NPCs, as I end up thinking of them in silly terms, and I'm sure I'd do the same as a PC.

 

[Wombat]

Gnomes do little for me, but under the right circumstances they could be okay.

Warforged (and their equivalents) are Right Out in my books. I dislike the thought of machines with emotions and learning ability in a fantasy (and even most sci fi) setting.

Other than that, I'm pretty open. Even played an Ahoggya once...

 

[drothgery]

I'd have to join the chorus and say "half-orc". I mean, I play humans most of the time, and elves or elf variants (half-elves or elf subraces) most of the rest, but I can see a reason for playing them (even if I don't like half-races conceptually, and think elves are kind of weak mechanically in 3.x). But half-orc almost goes hand and hand with barbarian, and that's just not an archetype I'm interested in exploring.