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Thread: Fantasy Race you love.
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2012-07-07, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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I love the Drow. Not the "outcast with a heart of gold", but the scheming & selfish members of a dysfunctional spider-loving society, who are also very aesthetically pleasing.
I also love Illithids (especially using the name, "Mind Flayer" is so pedestrian). They're quite original, have a cool name, look cool and positively creepy.
Finally, I love dragon-people. Drakelings were my favourite race to play in Ancient Domains of Mystery and I guess my love for them can extend easily to other similar races, like Dragonborn.
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2012-07-07, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Normally I don't like Eberron, but I have to agree. What it does with goblinoids and orcs is quite suberb.
Wasn't Dak'kon's backstory and the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon pretty much made up for the purposes of Planescape: Torment? Many people accept it as canon because of how great it is, but it's not actually canon, I think.My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
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2012-07-07, 06:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Part of it is. Torment just added a ton more detail.
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2012-07-07, 07:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Humans. Fantasy culture humans that have a rich and detailed culture.
Unfortunately, most RPG's just list human as human and don't differentiate based on their culture. This is very disappointing.
I love worlds where the only races playable are humans, but variations thereof.
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2012-07-07, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-07, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Gnomes. Definetely Gnomes. I just find the concept of them so charming.
Also, Kobolds. Little grumpy dragon people who yip when they talk.
Also Goblins.
Now that I think about it, I quite like most humanoids with a small size...
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2012-07-07, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Flumphs. Full stop. In my campaigns I have them refluffed as created by the same mad gods that made the other Abberations. The Flumphs were created to be the wardens and crusaders of the Abberations. There form allowed them to use almost any weapon imaginabe in their quests. In the current time, Flumphs are what stop creatures like the Mindflayers and stuff from taking over.
~The meteorite is the source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see,
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee.
And the meteorite's just what causes the light, and the meteor's how it's perceived,
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee.~
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2012-07-07, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-07, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow. I started on 3.5 edition so the flumph is something I learned of later, but this is genius.
I've got a liking for gnolls, though more the human half than the other. In my personal setting, I reworked them into nomadic desert living coyote-people with strong family ties. They were also the first race I ever tried to write a language for (except for the part where languages have more than thirty-odd words I succeeded too).Currently operating the 5e Subclass Contest and the 5e Base Class Contest. Check them out if even just to vote or give feedback, we love that in there.
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2012-07-07, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-07, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Everything anyone has said about Dwarves in this thread so far pretty much sums it up for me. Dwarves are awesome.
Other than Dwarves:
Half-Giants = The closest I'll get to being tall.
Werebears and "unusual" lycanthropes (Sharks, Bison, Whales, etc, etc) = To be fair, Werewolves are awesome, but I'd rather turn into a Bear than a Wolf in the end.
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2012-07-07, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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I love Drow, but found myself very disappointed by the Eberron Fluff; Scorpions? When we could've had Spiders! Unacceptable!
Other than that though, they are probably my favourite race ever; the weird, dysfunctional society, the near constant machinations against everyone you care for, the tests of Lolth. That and they make me feel all tingly
...moving on.
I also really love Changelings, both because Shapeshifters are awesome, but also because they look awesome in their base forms (which, admittedly, doesn't matter much for a shapeshifter). I also really enjoyed their fluff in RoE
Finally, Modrons. Modrons are awesome.
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2012-07-07, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mostly anything that is not primarily a D&D construct. Dragons, elves, dwarves, dryads, brownies, ... Any traditional fantasy race.
But there's one traditional race I love above all others. They can be the most noble, or the most villainous. They combine all the most interesting aspects of the other races. You can never predict what they do, since their experience covers everthing.
The ultimate fantasy race - humans.
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2012-07-07, 10:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm going to go with Spellweavers, assuming non-playables are allowed. All the power of a sorcerer of a level two higher than their number of HD, and the ability to cast 6 levels worth of spells in a single round. Their strangely appealing arthopoidal appearance and their indestructible chromatic disks which also store an additional 10 levels worth spells are just gravy.
They also, to exaggerate, came close to achieving a TippyVerse in their ancient past, before the gods decided to crash their party and blow up of their monolithic portal hubs. At least, that's what I drew from their Ecology article in Dragon, which I suppose might not be valid.
I don't have a particular favorite race excluding D&D, though I suppose I'm sort of fond Norse dwarves, since the idea of awakened, magically inclined, humanoid maggots seems pretty interesting to me. I might be selectively remembering my readings on Norse mythology, though.
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2012-07-07, 11:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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~The meteorite is the source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see,
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee.
And the meteorite's just what causes the light, and the meteor's how it's perceived,
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee.~
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2012-07-08, 02:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, to be fair, I think part of the reason they didn't go with spiders was because if all the other gods were new in Eberron, then they had Lolth waltz in and be up to her old tricks, SOOOOOOOOOOO many people would have been really peeved. I think going with just another arachnid might be kind of lazy, but I would rather it be scorpions than tics, cause tics are just completely gross and creepy. One the other hand, they probably also wanted Vulkoor to be a male, for another degree of separation from Lolth.
Also, I would edit your post about the whole "machinations against everyone they are for" to "everyone they're related to" since they don't have a word for love, and all that business.
But while I feel the exact opposite of you about Eberron drow, I do so with the utmost respect. And as an aside, concerning them making you feel all tingly, look at he bright side of Eberron drow: they're now available in loinclothed barbarianThanks to Kymme for my sweet avatar of Bendar Roy, my kick@$$ dwarven rogue.
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2012-07-08, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Goblins, Orcs nd Ogres - beautiful green for all sizes. I never liked how they're treated liek a crap to make Elves and human look better and was always secretely rooting for them. I never like when they just shove down my throat that some race is evil and it's okay to kill it's members, that just doesn't work for me. I like them as representing the alternative to what we are. I like them as living in hard einvorment, where you have to fight for survival, like deserts, jungles, mountains and things like that. Entire world and nature itself unites against them. Humans, Dwarves and Elves wants to kill them, forces of nature doesn't give them a break. And yet, they survive. By their titanic strength (ogres), cunning and boderline madness (goblins) or just sheer determination and refusal to die (Orcs), they survive.
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2012-07-08, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mul
Because half human half dwarves that have the muscles of Dwarves yet the height of humans is a kickass idea. Also they are good for Battleminds.
Thri-Kreen
Favorite mantis/humanoid, has two extra arms that can be used to quickly switch weapons out. Jumper/climber, just a lot different than the humanoid base races, while dwarves might get resistance to poison, but these guys have extra arms.
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2012-07-08, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Githzerai. So lawful, they place their monasteries in the plane of swirling chaos for the challenge of it. So mentally strong, that they make their own rules of reality apply while inside.
Seriously, it's like an order of paladins colonizing Hell for the challenge of it. I love their chutzpah.Honor guard at the funeral in the Miko Fan Club.
Those who are too stupid to run, I salute you.
Human Male, age 35
"Have you come to lecture me on my evil ways?"
"Actually, I brought you some supper. But if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped; sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
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2012-07-08, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've always loved Elves. Particularly Warhammer and LotR ones.
A race that has been around for milennia and knows how to avoid all the mistakes humans might make in the current era but won't tell them because the Elves are too god to bother with helping some hairy, barely civilised barbarians.
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2012-07-08, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dwarves.
And Goliaths from Races of Stone.
I totally want a mountain campaign filled with dwarves and goliaths.
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2012-07-08, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh absolutely. But they're far too arrogant to admit that.
I dunno, but the idea of a society whose arrogance is their major flaw intrigues me. Especially when one considers that, of humans, halflings and dwarves, elves have the most cause to be arrogant.
The arrogance is justified. It might piss other beings off, but it's justified. Try as they might, other races will just not match the grandeur of the elves. They can try. And they will fail. Cause the elves are better than you. And they know it.
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2012-07-08, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warforged, Humans, Changelings, and Daelkyr Half-Bloods.
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2012-07-08, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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