What types of races are you tired of seeing?

[Ravellion]

Stock car.

Great remedy to a boring thread!

Rav

 

[yennico]

I´m tired of every half-race and sub-race.

I'm tired of seeing monster races with huge LA's nobody wants to play a +8 LA Vampire!

I agree: races with high LA are sadly only for NPCs. In which game you can play a +8 LA race ? So no more races with high LAs.
Only races with LA max +2.

I want vampires a werewolves with no LA.

Vampires and werewolves as templates because of their abilities always give a LA.
A vampire with no LA would be a class with levels... You need X levels to become a full vampire. Each level you gain new abilities.

 

[woodelf]

I'm not tired of any race really. The only thing I'm tired of is the fact that in most if not all campaigns have humans as the dominating race, the other races being the ones with the longest history and all but in decline.

Yeah, the "humans are the up-and-comers, while all the other races are has-beens or also-rans" does get a bit old. I didn't realize it at the time, but now that you mention it, i think that's one of the reasons i like Arcana Unearthed: it assumes that verrik (psi-adept humans) and humans are the has-beens, and giants are the current dominant race.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I'm actually a little tired of the mass of barely-distinct humanoids. I understand their origins in needing slight variations of cannon fodder for PCs, but now that we have ability score variation, "advances by character class", templates, and other ways of differentiating these monsters, we don't need the huge variety any more.

I hate the huge variety of goblinoids. Given my druthers, I'd cut it down to just Hobgoblins, or possibly Hobgoblins and Blues.

I hate the number of different "almost Large" furry races-- like Gnolls and Bugbears and such.

I really hate subraces. As much as I think D&D suffers from having way too many humanoids with too little differentiation, this is adding insult to injury. Add in the fact that there's almost no real justification for the mechanical differences... (Galactic Races has a template to solve for Underdark variants.)

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Where are our sentient quadrapeds, cephalapods and disembodied energy form PCs?

Let's stat out a new cephalapod race.

Here's the inspiration:

Go Pods!!

 

[Dragonhelm]

By my count so far: Vah Shir (EQPHB), Litorian (AU/AE), Artathi (Mythic Races), Catfolk (RotW), Wemic (RoF), Pershala (Galactic Races), Nasimir (AEG's Monster, but they are more of a half-race), Cat Folk (D20 Modern Menace Manual), Cathar (UAA), Farghul (UAA), Trianii (UAA), and Paka (Ravenloft's Denizens of Dread). I'm sure I'm missing a couple. (I didn't count Rakastas since they haven't been done in an "official" capacity that I know of yet.) I know that not all of these are D&D-specific, but when you use just about every book in your library (as I do) there are a proliferation of cat people. This is also just the list of the cat-races that are in print, in my own collection, this doesn't cover books that I don't own or all of the pdf's that I do. (I think there's another cat race in Silverthorne Games' Races of Evernor line...)

Mythic Races has a set of cat-races. There's one basic race with several subraces, each one for a different variety of cat (sorta like the old Dragon article on Rakastas). Those are some of the better cat-races I've seen.

 

[Raloc]

I'll take "Overused Fantasy Concepts" for $200, Alex.

What are "elves"?

 

[Nighthawk]

Humans, simply because every campaign I have been a part of for over 15 years has had them as the dominant race. They have been typecast as much as the other races mentioned in this thread.

Different experiences would be cool.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Let's stat out a new cephalapod race.

Here's the inspiration:

Go Pods!!

Stats for a Paragon Mind Flayer are in the ELH.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Mythic Races has a set of cat-races. There's one basic race with several subraces, each one for a different variety of cat (sorta like the old Dragon article on Rakastas). Those are some of the better cat-races I've seen.

Yep. I agree. That's why I listed them.

Kane