What's your favorite D&D character race?

[AtlasEros]

Which ever one you like to play the most, even if it is not standard.


For the standard races I like Human & Half-orc the best; for the non-standard I like Ogre Mage (Oni) the best, however I've yet to play one.  I also really like Lizardmen but that is largely do to the first rpg character I had was a lizard man.  I was 10 at the time & that's the only lizardman I've ever played but I'm looking forward to playing one again.  Beside that I also like to play Fey characters who are a bit dark, twilight court.

[HairyHeretic]

I think the most fun I had with a particular character was playing a Kender. The GM made the mistake of letting me have one who had found his way through a portal from Krynn, and ended up in some other world. His crowning achievement was killing a goblin wolf rider with a humorously shaped turnip (Blackadder reference).

And for reference, letting a Kender combine taunt and ventriloquism is a BAD idea .. for the GM  ;D

[Callie Del Noire]

It varies.. most of the time it's one of the  'traditional' races but occasionally slides into other things.

I like the idea of a tiefling right now. :-D

[spiritdancer]

pretty non-human races. I seem to favor the darker races a bit as such I love:

Drow - when they are neither totally unforgivable evil, nor the opposite. I can do without Lolth (because if you look too deep into what's going on there, you can only realize how overly stupid that is) and especially like the Drow from Eberron because of their tribal aspects.

Tieflings - horns and tail. Somehow I find that yummie. Also: maybe I have watched too much Supernatural lately, but I like the devil-connections here. There's a lot to work with there.

[Callie Del Noire]

If the gensai were available for Pathfinder I'd check out some of that action.. 'Hot chicks' literally. :D

[spiritdancer]

THinking about it, I also like Eladrin a lot. Teleportation can really be handy.

(I play D&D 4 obviously)

[Cold Heritage]

Humans. Hail Zarus.

[Callie Del Noire]

THinking about it, I also like Eladrin a lot. Teleportation can really be handy.

(I play D&D 4 obviously)

I'll try not to hold it against you. :D

[spiritdancer]

Damn and here I had hoped to hijack the thread and start a flamewar. ;)

[Callie Del Noire]

Damn and here I had hoped to hijack the thread and start a flamewar. ;)

Sorry.. I  refuse to acknowledge the existence of the following 'hypothetical' RPGs.: DnD 4e, Cyberpunk 3. :D

[Ryven]

Goliath ;D

[MikeH5]

Catfolk- not because of how they look, but how they break the game when combined w/ Barbarian. Move as fast as a mount. Get +4 dex and +1 natural armor. Profit.

[AtlasEros]

pretty non-human races. I seem to favor the darker races a bit as such I love:

Drow - when they are neither totally unforgivable evil, nor the opposite. I can do without Lolth (because if you look too deep into what's going on there, you can only realize how overly stupid that is) and especially like the Drow from Eberron because of their tribal aspects.

Tieflings - horns and tail. Somehow I find that yummie. Also: maybe I have watched too much Supernatural lately, but I like the devil-connections here. There's a lot to work with there.

I love Tieflings too, there are so many interesting forms you can make them take.  And girls with devil horns are just so sexy  >:)

[Chris Brady]

Human primarily.  I grew up on REH's Conan the Cimmerian, sorry...

But I'll played and will play:  Halfling, Half-Orc and in 4e, a Tiefling.  And in the original Red Box (Basic Set from '83) a Dwarf.  Which was AWESOME.

[DarklingAlice]

For basic races I tend to play humans or half-elves. If we widen the gaze to anything with a level adjustment then I like pretty much most kinds of Fey. Oh, and I once played a half-elemental, that was really fun.

[MasterMischief]

And for reference, letting a Kender combine taunt and ventriloquism is a BAD idea .. for the GM  ;D

Letting anyone play a Kender is a bad idea.

[Callie Del Noire]

Letting anyone play a Kender is a bad idea.

No letting the group trouble maker play a Kender.

with a wand of wonder...

and.. bag of tricks...

and a portable hole full of junk.. er.. interesting stuff.

[Xanatos]

I LOVE Erinyes and Succubi in 3.5! Tormenting players or NPC's is deliciously fun. Minotaur rock hard too. Centaur are awesome clerics. Drow are my fave race as a whole. Female Drow evil bitch Cleric. Soo much fun. Elan Psion very cool.

Too many to just choose one.

[tuckers02]

I only play 3.5 so...

Gnome.  I have to definitely say Gnome.  I love playing Gnomes.

As for non-standard races, I've got a pretty mean Dream Dwarf Lich True Necromancer I'm playing :p

[Drow Denizen]

No points for guessing mine  >:)

[tuckers02]

Hmmmm...pixie?  Nymph?

...Oh!  Oh!  I know!  Satyr!

[HairyHeretic]

No letting the group trouble maker play a Kender.

with a wand of wonder...

and.. bag of tricks...

and a portable hole full of junk.. er.. interesting stuff.

Pff. A true Kender needs not such props to wreak havoc  ;D

[MasterMischief]

No letting the group trouble maker play a Kender.

Anyone wanting to play a Kender is pretty much a dead give away.

You can see it in the twinkle of their eye.

[Callie Del Noire]

Pff. A true Kender needs not such props to wreak havoc  ;D

Need?

No.

Want?

No.

Enjoying the consequences?

Absolutely.

"Hey what happened the the contents of our (bar, brewery, alchemy lab, tool shed, treasury, armory, ect)"

[Hunter]

I prefer flying races myself.  The amount of carnage a single boulder (or cluster of arrows) dropped from half a mile up is alone worth the effort.   >:)

[mystictiger]

Without a shadow of a doubt, Aasimar.

"Do you know who my father is?"

But then I tend to play gratuitously heroic types; paladins or swashbucklers. So Lawful Good that it hurts.

[Callie Del Noire]

Ah.. Aasimar.. or the Super Jot Cola of paladins. :D

[mystictiger]

Ah.. Aasimar.. or the Super Jot Cola of paladins. :D

That's the half-celestial template ;)

[Callie Del Noire]

That's the half-celestial template ;)

No that's the 'I'm mainlining caffeine and distilled mountain dew.'

[Hunter]

Letting anyone play a Kender is a bad idea.

A Kender can be a bad idea.

A Kender with caffeine is a serious problem (for someone else).

[HairyHeretic]

A Kender with caffeine at any time is a serious problem (for someone everyone else).

Fixeded that for ya ;)

[Hunter]

A kender on caffeine =

[MasterMischief]

'Cause 'playing in character' absolves you of any responsibility not to ruin the game for everyone else.   ::)

[HairyHeretic]

Definitely not.

Kender can actually be tricky to play in that regard. Their nature does make them annoying ... the player just has to make sure that they keep the annoyance factor minimised towards the rest of the group.

For that matter, you could probably take and emphasis the negative traits of any race, and if you make those the primary aspect of the character, you will annoy the rest of your group, regardless of species.

But that's the player though, not the character.

[AtlasEros]

I LOVE Erinyes and Succubi in 3.5!

The planescape monster manuel from 2nd had what I felt were the best pics for those two races.  I really like Erinyes, the idea of fallen angels is enjoyable.  I had a paladin as Asmodeua in a pathfinder game that consorted with Erinyes; unfortunately one powergaming player ruined the whole game & the GM stopped running it  :(

[AtlasEros]

'Cause 'playing in character' absolves you of any responsibility not to ruin the game for everyone else.   ::)

I really have to agree with that.  It's been along time since I've seen a kender in a game but I see what we term 'random' character, which play about the same & I do not enjoy seeing those in games.

[meikle]

modron

http://www.angelfire.com/games2/labyrinth/book/PSMS/8b.jpg

[Kizara]

Half-celestial. Although fey would be a close second, followed by plain human.

Generally I enjoy otherworldly characters, often with a spiritual bent.

[Callie Del Noire]

I had an awesome time playing a high level demonfey in an Eberron game on RPOL.

Bard/Warlock.. nasty mix socially.

[tuckers02]

I played with a player that had a 7th level bard/sorcerer once.  Got KOed by a first lvl commoner trying to knock him out.  Funniest thing I've ever see.

[MasterMischief]

But that's the player though, not the character.

In theory.   :P

[PaleEnchantress]

Fey'ri (Deamonfey): These succubus-elf offspring are a very default race for me. Though since I only play casters I require various methods of overcomming LA.

Drow: I find spider themes very sexually alluring. My drow are very evil. Also Kiaransalee is a fun deity.

Dvati: Ahhhh my love of loves. While I never play one personally my defacto cohort (leadership feat) is one of these. One soul inhabiting two bodies. He is usually a fiend of possession class but he has made appearances as other classes. He s always a Dvati though and a colorful character.

[AtlasEros]

Fey'ri (Deamonfey): These succubus-elf offspring are a very default race for me. Though since I only play casters I require various methods of overcomming LA.

Drow: I find spider themes very sexually alluring. My drow are very evil. Also Kiaransalee is a fun deity.

Dvati: Ahhhh my love of loves. While I never play one personally my defacto cohort (leadership feat) is one of these. One soul inhabiting two bodies. He is usually a fiend of possession class but he has made appearances as other classes. He s always a Dvati though and a colorful character.

I find female drow to be very sexy, their culture is interesting.

[PaleEnchantress]

I find female drow to be very sexy, their culture is interesting.

I've been wanting an excuse to role play an overtly sexual drow male priest of Lolth.

[Bayushi]

I've been wanting an excuse to role play an overtly sexual drow male priest of Lolth.

Except that Lolth does not have male priests. She hates men.

If I were to choose a race, it'd likely be Drow. I've always enjoyed playing the outcast that usually ends up suffering for her species.

I saw mention above of Modron. Heh.

Had a Planescape game I played in years and years ago. One player, a very droll guy, decided to play a Modron, and it just seemed to be the perfect race for his personality. It was almost like RPing with Ben Stein.

[HairyHeretic]

That's not to say Draw males don't have opportunities for promotion of course  ;)

http://yafgc.net/?id=77

[Black Howling]

I'm going to go ahead and risk being seen as mundane, and say the human. Why you ask? It's a power gaming thing, I like the extra bonus feet and skills! Lol

[Hunter]

I played with a player that had a 7th level bard/sorcerer once.  Got KOed by a first lvl commoner trying to knock him out.  Funniest thing I've ever see.

Now that right there is a win.   ;)

[Koyume]

I tend to play a lot of humans and elves, elans are pretty cool too when psionics are included. My very first character was an elf ranger.

[Bayushi]

Now that right there is a win.   ;)

I had a level 4 Specialist Priest of Llira (Forgotten Realms goddess of Dance), who got attacked by a level 1 commoner, stabbed twice and almost killed. She only survived by beating the hell out of him with her fists.

Which, even as she did not kill him, landed her in jail (stupid lawful neutral city! >.<).  Last time I ever played in the RPGA.

[TheGlyphstone]

I've always been partial to Goliaths when I want to be a melee bruiser - Strength and Constitution boosts plus pseudo-Large size are fun. For casters, I just go with Human, since simply being a caster is so OP to begin with.

[Callie Del Noire]

I've always been partial to Goliaths when I want to be a melee bruiser - Strength and Constitution boosts plus pseudo-Large size are fun. For casters, I just go with Human, since simply being a caster is so OP to begin with.

One of my characters in my 2009 Nanowrimo book was a Goliath with a Large Sized Composite Bow  :D For when you got to absolutely kill that Orc from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy over here. :D

[TheGlyphstone]

One of my characters in my 2009 Nanowrimo book was a Goliath with a Large Sized Composite Bow  :D For when you got to absolutely kill that Orc from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy over here. :D

Cragtop Archer is awesome, especially as part of the ultrasniper build. It's extremely overkill, but there's just something awesome about needing to magically scry on a target within your maximum range before you can hit it.

[Callie Del Noire]

Cragtop Archer is awesome, especially as part of the ultrasniper build. It's extremely overkill, but there's just something awesome about needing to magically scry on a target within your maximum range before you can hit it.

Yup.. nothing like dropping a cuestick sized arrow right through the skull of your foe from soooooo far away that it is nearly another time zone to terrify his friends.

[ManyMindsManyVoices]

"Gotta say, I can't pick a single race. Whatever fits the concept I want at the time. I love Eladrin, Tieflings, Gnomes (to a degree), Revenants... I'm way too versatile and varied an RPer to pick a single favored race or character type. I like the races that deviate from the norm, ooh, Shardminds... I dunno, too many good choices and too many good things to do with every one of those choices."

[TheGlyphstone]

Hehe, gnomes.

"I'm a monster, rar!
"Do you have a lair? I have a lair!"