Would you be willing to play in a campaign setting with none of the core races?

[WayneLigon]

I'd try it; I'll try almost anything once. Having said that, I'd have severe reservations on liking it a lot, esp. if no humans were involved.

I'd need to know more, really. It would depend on what the races were. An all-goblinoid game for instance might be fun but I doubt seriously I'd enjoy more than two or three sessions of it. If they were more inhuman than that... I doubt I'd enjoy even one session. I liked the really alien mindsets of the races in Traveller, for instance, but I saw them all as more NPC's than anything else. Very, very few people ever played anything other than human or the occassional Varg (which were probably the closest to having a human mindset, having been bred up from Terran stock).

Furries I could deal with easily, since I really see all furry races as being human in mindset and behavor, with a few minor exceptions. That's the way they're usually protrayed. Ironclaw or Furry Pirates? I could deal with that easily, as long as some 'cool' looking races like otters, foxes, etc, were around.

 

[Particle_Man]

What might be interesting is a "last human" campaign.

Say almost all the humans died long ago (and/or far away) and these humans were somehow preserved (petrification) and "thawed out" by the new races. Then you get the strange world from a human viewpoint.

Starting as non-humans in a all-non-human world would not be as fun for me, unless I simply cheated and "thought like a human" anyhow.

 

[Ottergame]

The Wind in the Willows ?

Heh, nope. One is a furry version of sort of Forgotten Realms, the other is a different game named Ironclaw.

 

[Jehosephat]

We'll see man. I got 12 subraces to your one man. I'd say the odds favor me. But hey you want drow be my guest!

We'll see, all right. I also have driders and choldriths, chitines, yochlol, and an infinite number of spiders that come in all shapes and sizes. Nightfall, my man you’re too used to those softy Scarred Lands dark elves In Greyhawk , now those are some dark elves you don't want to mess with.

 

[Jehosephat]

Drow are sooooo over rated, and over used.

Depends on which setting and how you use them. In the days of the GDQ series, I don't know of anyone else using them. Mr. G. knew what the score was when he put them in Greyhawk. IMO, Ed Greenwood corrupted them and stuck them everywhere. That's when they became hackneyed. Drow are fine if a DM knows what he or she is doing.

I quote from the AD&D Monster Manual. "The "Black Elves," or drow, are only legend. They purportedly dwell deep beneath the surface. . ."

Doesn't sound to me like Gary Gygax envisioned them running around all over tarnation, and that there was to be some mystery about them. There's nothing in that quote to suggest that they should be a common occurence. That's not what I get reading FR, where they are all over the place.

 

[reiella]

No Humans would pretty much close me out of it.

I don't care so much about the lack of the other fantasy classic races, just the lack of humans.

Humans create the baseline of reference for me. Also, after the complete book of elves (sorry for the potshot) and the impression of demihumans being (typically) statistically superior to humans, I've become something of a human supremacist .

 

[Lu Wei Fong]

No Humans would pretty much close me out of it.

I don't care so much about the lack of the other fantasy classic races, just the lack of humans.

Humans create the baseline of reference for me. Also, after the complete book of elves (sorry for the potshot) and the impression of demihumans being (typically) statistically superior to humans, I've become something of a human supremacist .

Hey, I know exactly what you mean. I got pretty fed up with fantasy where humans were like dumb cattle who couldn't hold a candle to the "superior" races (can anyone say 'nazis'?), and that the only thing they have going for them is their rabbit-esque breeding rate. It got to the point where I play nothing but humans. Not so much a human supremicist thing as a human potentialist thing. Let's face it, humans are generally the underdogs, and since I've always had a soft spot for the underdogs, I just have this need to play them and try to prove what they're truly capable of. But I'm probably rambling and making no sense right now, so I'll cut it off here.

 

[Ottergame]

I perfer humans over any of the other core races. The others just seem to campy any more.

 

[buzz]

I perfer humans over any of the other core races. The others just seem to campy any more.

Substitute "played" for "campy" and I might agree with you. Honestly, though, when I think "campy," I'm thinking anthropomorphic badgers.

Depends on context, I guess. I got no problem with sibeccai and litorians in AU, fer example. And Wormy had tons of talking panther, lion, and bear people, and Wormy, of course, rawked. I'd buy a Wormy RPG in a sec (part of the reason I liked Savage Species so much).

 

[Gez]

Why not? Depends on the setting more than on the fact there's no elves.

Also, some things I'd like to try would be no humans at all; and only humans.