What is your favorite or least favorite race/species?

NanethielLanthir · Joined: 16 Aug 2010 Posts: 82 Location: USA - CO

Depends on the DM, the Setting, The world, and what ever you want.

That's the same thing that affects OTHER games.

DnD Follows SOME Physics, but only as far as the DM wants to take it.

Page 42 I think of the PHB or DM's Guide states something this: These are more like guidelines and suggestions. The point of this is for you to have fun.

The same applies there to real word physics.

If that really applied, 2e Spell Jammer's would have to have a shielding to travel through vacuum. Same for Treasure Planet. Where's the Force Field to keep you from turning into a shriveled husk with blood leaking out your eye sockets.

And again I was pointing out about the RACIAL bit. Please read the entire thing before assuming. I am not pulling this off topic further.

The last bit puts it in context of THIS THREAD'S TOPIC. Racial Magic does not follow Genetic Logic, because it is MAGICAL. That's the Explanation for it. End of off topicness please. End of misconstruding and misquoting me based on only 13 bits of my post. Thank you. (Misquoting IS against forum regulations.)

Manathayria · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 265 Location: USA

Dislikes
Gods and Goddesses would have to be my least favorite characters to play with. 'I can hurt you, but you can't hurt me' is a common theme I see with these.

Demons or Angels These generally are more people I see guilty of running god mods and refusing to take any hits. I get not taking death blows - but taking no damage ever.... while choosing to fight and being fully capable of killing or hurting the other person is god modding.

Vampires or wereanimals - again, when played as something that cannot take hits..... or heals just that fast after each blow. Occasionally I run across ones I really enjoy being around.

Favorites...

Elves - in general. Too many different types, and too many different forms to list, but generally I love messing with that species(?).

Drow Being a sub-race of elf but holding a special place for me - I don't mind either the 'good' or 'bad' drow being played.

That said...Semi-Rant about drow: I recognize that Drizzt was (one of?) the first that made it big, but he was certainly not the first of the 'good' drow and it mildly annoys me that people automatically pick him out as the reason for there being 'good' drow. I think the fact the gods Eilistraee, J’imasro (goddess of order), Lothlonglathe' (Goddess of Justice Bravery and Truth) exist and had existed prior to his creation prove Drow walk both sides of the fence and have for a long time.

(I think my one peeve with some of the Drow RPers however is I see them referring to Drow from the forgotten realms in the plural as 'Drows' - it's like deer, you don't say deers when referring to the animal, you say deer... at least that's what all my reading so far has indicated - if anyone else that based out of FR/D&D lore has noted anything different the insight would be welcome... as I am referring to the ones pulling from that.)

Normal Humans. Not just humanoids, but full I-have-no-magic humans, though they often don't survive because I do play them as being slower and not having all the insight a non-human would have. Which means they lack the speed to escape a lot of the fighting unless they see it coming. Sad but true.

Love/Hate:
Sidhe, or Fey of any sort. Done right they can be amazing, done poorly they're just another air-headed creature with no real depth. 'Real' Sidhe or Fey aren't going to be granting wishes if caught, you'll be lucky and happy if they chose to do so, and sorely hurting or dead if they take offense to being cornered, much less captured if they get a chance to strike back.

Anthros... I've met a few that're awesome at RP, but a lot of them make it a point that they don't belong in the RP rooms and chose to play it as if they're real world and shatter the atmosphere of a room by talking OOC like it's IC.

Truthfully back in 2002 or somewhere close to that was when I rolled Manathayria up and figured out what abilities she was to have along with her back story. She originated as an anti-magic, anti-godmod character. To this day my Drow's abilities are centered around the idea that her and the Drow she was raised by were a sort of 'chosen' of the gods of magic to destroy a mage-artifact in the Underdark. I actually have her bio written out somewhere on my page I think... playing her is an interesting balancing act due to her nature as a character built to piss off god-moders as 'legally' as possible without breaking into being one myself. I may actually have it posted on the bios section here too...

Saywihee · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 392 Location: USA - IL

There's a difference between some of the Anthropomorphs of IMVU and people playing an Anthropomorphic character.

I play some Anthropomorphic characters, but they're not me.

And I like Anthropomorphic characters, they can be fun to play around, as long as the player doesn't make the character's whole point to be "I'M A KITTY PERSON" There needs to be more development than that.
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CountVladDracula · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 8049 Location: USA - NY