In In Nomine you could play a member of the Kyriotates, the choir (compare: "class," or "clan") of angels capable of splitting their angelic selves into multiple earthly vessels at the same time.  That's ridiculous...  Ridiculously awesome!

Oh, I'm doing it wrong?  There isn't much that can beat the duck.  This is especially true when you realize they have infested other media.  The video game Suikoden III is one such victim.

I always dislike the ducks, at first. Then I decided to try a twist with them, and made them a bit inspired by the platypus and duck, rather than being just humanoid ones.  Just "ducks" works when its shorthand for "things with bills that will kill you good."  Razor sharo edged bills that vagulely look like teeth when closed. Poison claws on their hind legs. Yeah.

The problem is as a race "just" Ducks are silly. It's like Daffy or Donald with spears. We've seen too many cartoons of them made manlike and silly.

Now geese? Geese are MEAN.

They'll bite you and they're a 1/3 your size at best, they'll aggressively chase you and attack you. Geese-men? With the above poison claws and such? I'd run.

Seriously. I'd play. Tactically oriented, razor billed mean and poison claws?

Yep. You are dead.

Yeah Platypus are nasty, one of the oldest animals still around, their poison consists of 4 toxins, three of which don't occur anywhere else in nature. Morphine doesn't do a damn thing, the toxin acts directly on the pain receptors, only way to relieve the pain is to block the nerve.

Geese are mean, but a Trumpeter Swan will knock you on your ass.

Oh, and yeah, the Ducks are the most ridiculous race ever, both types, the cursed ones and the stitched ones.

Quote from: CRKrueger;396010Geese are mean, but a Trumpeter Swan will knock you on your ass.

I got attacked by a whooper swan when i was a lad. Hiss! hiss! clack!

Shudder...

Didn't World of Synnibarr have a bunch of crazy-weird stuff going on?

Quote from: CRKrueger;396010Yeah Platypus are nasty, one of the oldest animals still around, their poison consists of 4 toxins, three of which don't occur anywhere else in nature. Morphine doesn't do a damn thing, the toxin acts directly on the pain receptors, only way to relieve the pain is to block the nerve.

It's only the dude Platypuses that have the poison in their ankle spurs. I saw a couple of them fighting in the local creek about six months back during an early morning walk and I would hate to see those bastards at 6 feet long during mating season.

However, Darran's picture second picture of the Duckmen made me snort my drink through my nose, and while I have (sadly) never played Runequest, that will be forever how I envision these Duck's. Thanks Darran!!

Quote from: winkingbishop;396007Oh, I'm doing it wrong?  There isn't much that can beat the duck.  This is especially true when you realize they have infested other media.  The video game Suikoden III is one such victim.

Pish.  Suikoden's got nothing on the Viera.

Quote from: GnomeWorks;396015Didn't World of Synnibarr have a bunch of crazy-weird stuff going on?

Fuck yeah!
I don't recall any specifically silly PC races, but a number of them are sort of weird.

Elves have the natural ability to secrete an adhesive substance.

Androids ("Bio syntha cyborgs") can change their gender at will.

Priests of Berava are sort of like the Dalai Lama only mostly carnivorous and with a typo in their Strength that lets them throw people into orbit.

Lizardmen get d10 multiple personalities

Dragon men ("Chameleon Drakes") are puritans who are disgusted by the cyborg's gender-bending.

Giants have an additional heart in each foot.

The worst monster in the aliens section, the Neria Bendix, come with a planet-smashing missile as standard equipment and insist they have to conquer the universe so that the souls of their ancestors can rest in the afterlife.

The monsters section of course is where it gets really silly.

Dont know if thereis a race worst than RQ´s Ducks, but I know there is a race so ridiculous as those..

The "Giff" from Spelljammer..



By the way, is there a setting more ridiculous than Spelljammer ?

Humans!
Humans!
Humans!

Quote from: silva;396046By the way, is there a setting more ridiculous than Spelljammer ?

I don't know hippos are mean...



And stranger than Spelljammer?

The Awesome ENCOUNTER CRITICAL!

Ridiculous or not, I still like 'em and have them in my campaign world. And, again, ridiculous as compared to what? Elves, dwarves, minotaurs, lizard men, centaurs, etc. etc.? In a fantasy game, it's all ridiculous. People who don't game would think we're ridiculous for making such a distinction.

Quote from: Silverlion;396100I don't know hippos are mean...



And stranger than Spelljammer?

The Awesome ENCOUNTER CRITICAL!

I love Encounter Critical. But does it count if it's meant to be ridiculous?

Brian

Quote from: ggroy;395967Windlings from Earthdawn.

Bah! Windlings are great!
Just because everyone else makes them the butt of all the jokes doesn't show anything but jealousy!

For utter ridiculousness I nominate dwarves... have you seen them try to run? Seen their women? Even clean shaven they'll put the wilt on you for months. They boast about drinking and warfare... but they get drunk off a teacup of ale and aren't much danger as long as you wear shin guards. They live in holes in the ground to hide their shame... and claim to be mining treasure when in reality their 'cities' are just big sweaty man-caves where they sit around wanking off to pictures of unicorns and peeling dead skin off the bottoms of their feet.
Untidy, smelly, short and useless... but full of boast and bluster. Silly dwarves.

*Recalls a D&D monster called the Flump or somesuch*