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Ogres

Because a GM had one chasing two boars as an encounter. When the two boars split up at the crossroads of a trail, the Ogre stood there in frustration trying to figure out which boar he wanted to spear.

He ended up kicking our asses instead.

Orcs!

Because someone has to keep the pretty peoples of the world in their place.

...and by 'in their place' I mean keeping company amidst well seasoned vegetables.

Quote from: Drohem;315625Yup, they're pretty much feral.

And they excel at the use of biotech.

I like humans for their versatility. But for flavor I like dwarves. Tough, stocky and skilled at crafts.

Nagpa.

they were a player race/class in Top Balista for BD&D.
an intelligent, scheming vulture-headed humanoid with minor magical abilities and Nazi sensibilities.

great stuff! really chew the scenery as a player with these things!

David

I like the good old-fashioned goblin. The smart ones, mind you, not stupid goblins. Crafty ones.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;316155I like the good old-fashioned goblin. The smart ones, mind you, not stupid goblins. Crafty ones.

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I've had an idea floating around I've never yet implemented for neutral or chaotic goblins living on the fringes of human cities, getting by on scavenging and petty theft, but not automatically hostile.  But I haven't pinned it down yet.  I don't quite want a gully dwarf feel to them.

Quote from: Saladman;316270I've had an idea floating around I've never yet implemented for neutral or chaotic goblins living on the fringes of human cities, getting by on scavenging and petty theft, but not automatically hostile.

Iron Gauntlets has goblin PCs and they're pretty much portrayed that way.

I like Gnolls.  Have you ever looked into the eyes of a real hyena?  Very unsettling.

Bugbears, by far. No idea why, really. I guess I do like the 3.X bugbear aesthetic a great deal, and I used them often in my last 3.X campaign. Maybe it's the "I'll sneak up behind your ass and then hand it to you" aspect.

Quote from: RPGPundit;316155I like the good old-fashioned goblin. The smart ones, mind you, not stupid goblins. Crafty ones.

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Warcraft has the best Goblins ever.  A touch of Ferengi crossed with a touch of Brooklyn, and without being as annoying as that sounds, but with much more cleverness of their own instead of leeching off everyone else's technology.  

I'm also fond of their Orcs, I just like the aesthetic there, and the mroe sympathetic presentation.  I like Orcs in general though.  They rock.

WoW has a lot of great races really.  I'd love to actually do some PnP in the universe one of these days, with a system that actually feels right.  Tuskarr, vrykul, murlocs, goblins, tauren, and on and on.  I even sort of like their elves.  The Forsaken are an awesome undead race, more vengeance, less angst.  They even have a race of sentient owlbears.

I have had a lot of fun running goblins. I like the fact that a clever tribe of goblins can defeat a team of 8th or 9th level characters. Of course this can be overused and players don't like to be outsmarted by the DM too often. But once or twice it is fun.
The killer touch is size. Goblins are about 3 feet tall and typically pretty hunched up so no reason why goblin warrens need to be more than 3 feet high. An armoured human warrior in his plate mail weilding a 4 foot bastard sword is pretty amusing crawling along on his hands and knees. Add murder holes in the ceiling where unseen goblins stick poison spears, boiling oil and such nasties as flesh eating maggots or fire ants. Then there are doors a cleverly hinged 3 foot high steel door either with a central pivot (making each side 18 inches wide) or turnstile on a ratchet means you have mighty warriors removing their +3 plate to face their diminutive foes at AC 10 (no dex bonus on your hands and knees in a corridor)... ah such fun.
If you want to get nasty you can introduse a bit of Grimtoothology and have some clever traps The simplest are false floors that won't break when a 50 pound goblins run over them but collapse into 20 foot deep crevases filled with incendiaries when big guys move through them.
Oh and chuck in a few golbin wizards but rather then use fireballs etc (the actually volume of 3foot square tunnels consumed by a fireball is phenomenal) use swarm, or enlarge, or grease, or well all the annoying low level MQ spells (I am a 2e guy so you will need to excuse any archaic terminology).

I like the Minotaurs of Taladas (Krynn).

Oh shit, yes. Those were awesome Minotaurs.

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Quote from: J Arcane;316320Warcraft has the best Goblins ever.  A touch of Ferengi crossed with a touch of Brooklyn, and without being as annoying as that sounds, but with much more cleverness of their own instead of leeching off everyone else's technology.  

I'm also fond of their Orcs, I just like the aesthetic there, and the mroe sympathetic presentation.  I like Orcs in general though.  They rock.

WoW has a lot of great races really.  I'd love to actually do some PnP in the universe one of these days, with a system that actually feels right.  Tuskarr, vrykul, murlocs, goblins, tauren, and on and on.  I even sort of like their elves.  The Forsaken are an awesome undead race, more vengeance, less angst.  They even have a race of sentient owlbears.

I agree as well.  I really like the diversity of intelligent races in the game.  I really dig the orcs' story line too.

Sam Raimi is going to direct a World of Warcraft movie.  Although, rumor has it that the protagonists will be the humans and not orcs.  I think that Thrall and his story would be great for a movie.