Your favorite race?

[Dark Jezter]

Half-dragon vampire kobolds.

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Half-dragon vampire kobolds.

That gives me an idea.

Can I change my vote to Awakened Tarrasque?

 

[drunkmoogle]

I like to be whatever the party does not have. I like to be different.

So I guess I play the short folk the most. Halfling gets the edge over gnome, but just barely.

As for favorite... I have to go Half-Orc. A really stupid one. Good comic relief.

 

[Maliki]

Toss-up dwarves and humans, followed by everything else, then elves.

 

[Cithindril]

Half-Gelatinous Cube / Half Shambling Mound...

Seriously though, I've always been partial to elves. Going beyond the Tolkien stereotype, it is a wonderfully versatile and complex race with many options. In fact my favorite character was a Drow Spy (no lame Drizzt knockoffs in case you were wondering).

After the elves, I like to play characters against type. So my fighter will be a halfling vs. a dwarf, and my monk will be a half-orc, etc. On the current front, three of the four new Eberron races seem very interesting (although I know it's very popular, the warforged doesn't turn me on).

 

[Orius]

I prefer humans dwarves or gnomes.

I loathe D&D elves; they're poor excuses for elves when compared to Tolkien. My dislike of the standard D&D elf has affected my portrayal of them, in my world, they're not a bunch of do-gooders and can be pretty nasty to their enemies at times. I've shocked my players a couple of times with my world's elves.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I prefer humans dwarves or gnomes.

I loathe D&D elves; they're poor excuses for elves when compared to Tolkien. My dislike of the standard D&D elf has affected my portrayal of them, in my world, they're not a bunch of do-gooders and can be pretty nasty to their enemies at times. I've shocked my players a couple of times with my world's elves.

Now that's weird.

Usually elves are hated because all those fan-boys want to have Tolkien-uber-elves (you know: +2 or more to all ability scores, spell resistance, immunity to a lot of stuff, immortal, and all that) and because elves can get away with using "tactics" (read: being underhanded) without being labelled cowards. And, there's grey/sun/gold-elves who are considered extremely racist.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

My favourite race is always human, but I have a certain love for Half Orcs (and Orcs), and Halflings. I played all three of them, though my first choice will always be human - human gives simply more options (read: feats and skill points)

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Tieflings --- just not the lame watered-down 3E version that haunts FR. We still prefer the spiky Planescape berks with variable appearances and abilities.

Ummmm... Word.
The race I've played the most is Human.
The races that I'd like to play/spark my imagination the most are (oldschool) Aasimar and Tieflings. Heck, add Genasi and Fey'ri to that list as well.
The 3E plane-touched illustrations have been a bit disappointing overall, but there have been a few stand outs. Lockwood's from the FRCS were great technically, though the tiefling was a bit uninspired. Is it just me or is Vinod Rams doing for the plane-touched races in 3E what TD did for them in 2E? His illos made the Fey'ri interesting for me (the Tanarukks even look cool).

The races 3E made me like: Halflings and Gnomes. In 2E I simply ignored gnomes and I loathed the pot-bellied, chubby-faced, furry-footed, hobbit-look-alike jokes that were called halflings. Now they seem like respectable character races to me. The halflings are their own race now instead of something which, to me, felt tacked onto D&D simply because they were from LotR.
I like how 3E gave each race a specific facial structure; a racial identity.
Down with hobbits, up with halflings!

 

[Aeric]

In order of preference:

Humans
Elves
Half-Elves
Half-Orcs

I'm not much for the shorter races, although I sometimes play dwarves in short-term games as the stereotypical axe-wielding Gimli clone. Halflings and gnomes didn't really appeal to me when they had a distinctive look to them, but I could at least respect them as races. Now they're just shrunken humans.