With which race do you identify?

[Corsair]

Human. It's not that I particularly LIKE humans, but I have problems with nearly every other race.

Gnomes and Halflings: There is a saying in our group. "A gnome can claim to be the leader, but no one takes the midget seriously." As someone who is 6'3 in real life, and someone with an outgoing, nearly bombastic personality, I hate being a shrimp! Also, I am routinely annoyed that there are very few short people in my DM's homebrew, so if you're a gnome or halfling rogue or beguiler, good luck trying to sneak anywhere disguised. You'll stick out like who.

Dwarves: I want to like dwarves, I really do. But that 20' speed thing bugs the crap out of me.

Half-elfs: I like them, but I hate the angstyness attributed to them. Outcast this, outcast that. Clam up you sissies! I like Eberron half-elves though. In the end I never play one because they are mechanically crap.

Half-orc: No real strong feeling either way on this one. But mechanically crap, so rarely played.

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Strangely enough, I have a soft spot for kobolds. Not just any kobolds mind you. POWERFUL kobolds. SCARY kobolds. EPIC KOBOLDS (of legacy)!

 

[The Human Target]

You live in the Midwest: Are you going to tell me this doesn't also describe most humans? (Substitute Budweiser for tea.)

What a typical member of a race is like and what an adventurer is like are two different things.

I've moved more than 18 times in my life, lived in the third world and visited a war zone as a non-combatant. I assure you that the reactions I get from my fellow humans to this most of the time is akin to how the Sackville-Baggins reacted to Bilbo and Frodo.

Pre-3E halflings were just fine as hobbits (intellectual property issues aside). If they didn't want hobbits in the core book, they should have just dropped them or explicitly replaced them with kender. Poor old Yondolla was one of the best aspects of D&D hobbits and now she's like a racial appendix, an organ designed for a no-longer-needed role.

I not only played hobbits back in the old day, I ran an all-hobbit game that kicked ass. My players still fondly remember trying to figure out who was killing off the prize-winning livestock at the regional fair.

I'm glad you had so much fun.

I still don't like them. Or should I say, I still like the new kind much better.

 

[Seeten]

I hate: Halflings, Gnomes, Dwarves, and everything else 5' tall and less. Further, I hate short elves, and all elves in my games are Tolkien sized elves. Midget elves are ridiculous.

 

[LogicsFate]

Ahh! Human, the part I was born to play.

 

[megamania]

Mongrel men




When playing I tend to do humans or dwarves but I identify with mongrels much easier....

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Thay, Über Alles!

I identify with the Master Race ... a.k.a. Mulan Humans (Races of Faerûn, pp. 95-98).

-Samir Asad

 

[Scarbonac]

Identify with?

Hobbit.


Play?

Human, Elf, Half-Elf, mostly, with forays into Koboldry, Hobgobling, and Mulishness.

 

[pawsplay]

I like humans, but I always kind of thought I was a catfolk in human skin.

 

[IamTheTest]

Illumian. Looking for knowledge constantly...good stuff.

 

[interwyrm]

Although I'm a 5'10, normal build kind of guy... I really identify with the "screw you guys, I'll take that giant on myself!" angry little ambitious halfling.

All people under 6'0 are short. All people between 6'0 and 6'4 are average. All people taller than 6'4 are tall. (Says the 6'6 me.)

For me...
I never play tieflings, because I find them to be mechanically lacking. However, the idea of a tiefling greatly appeals to me. I've got bipolar disorder. I have at times felt as if I was born damned. I have 'two natures'. I tend to unknowingly piss people off. I've got 'real angst' (tm).

I usually play humans though.