Have your PCs in a fantasy RPG ever managed to kill off an entire race/species of monster or humanoid?

Usually its impossible to extinction a race as the PCs scope of activity tends to not quite get to the global scale.

But have had PCs try to put a sizable dent in a race population on occasion. Usually one of the more troublesome chaotic evil races.

As a player in BX it was first bugbears. And later gnomes that we ran into increasing trouble with for god unknown reasons. But whatever it was. In that campaign gnomes were a threat and steadily expanding their kingdom.

In AD&D it never really came up. An area might get cleared. But there was allways more of the things out there somewhere.

Spelljammer though was where we made a concerted effort to exteminate the Arcane after Not one, but two major events involving them. The second being the Astrodomini incident where things came to a head and everyone realized the real threat the Arcane posed.

Yes, in a Traveller campaign.  The ship I was captaining was a drugrunner smuggling swag from the Cute Bunny Race that was on the losing side of a WWI-tech conflict against the Badger People We Didn't Like Because They Were Effing Up Our Deal.  A few kinetic strikes from orbit, non-judicious use of airraft lasers, radiological bombs, all was serene.

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Nearly.

Rogue Trader: Found a world rich in minerals, with a primitive xeno population that didn't want to mine for us and got pissy when we did it ourselves.

Some virus bombs and sealed environmental domes later, we had all the minerals we could want.

I feel left out. My players have never even attempted genocide. We never even properly did the orc babies thing.

A long-standing clash has existed in my homebrewed campaign between two native human ethnicities: the Gothric and the Walstanians. The Gothric have a very long and sordid past with the Walstanians, enacting brutal pogroms to control their population while propping up popular Walstanians as puppets in local government.

Meanwhile, the Walstanians carry out terrorist actions, creating "pyreshot" (otherwise black powder) weapons. They've blown up local bazaars on faire day, destroyed bridges and held hostage/killed the families of Gothric officials.

My players have played both sides of the war, where no clear party is either right or wrong and all are uncertain of who really started it (or how to end it).

Not even close. My campaigns typically don't get to the point where players have that kind of power. Now they have wiped out particular tribes or organizations before but even then outside help was typically involved.

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No, but no one's tried. Murder, regardless of scale, is not really our thing.

No, which is surprising, they haven't even tried, which is even more surprising.

In Albedo that pretty much is the goal of the ILR regarding any non-lapine species and was just short of the fate of any planets they took. Non-lap prisoners were either killed en-mass or shipped off to concentration planets to work till they die.

After a point genociding the SOBs was about the only option left if things escalated out of control. War is Hell.

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One of my Angel play groups managed to help the Fenris Wolf destroy an entire parallel universe.Does that count

In case anyone asks  normally this would result in the Ragnarok rebirth scenario but the players stole the worlds "life song" to save their own.

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Yes, and unsurprisingly, these were elves.

Does it count if they kill the last surviving individual of a species?

In Traveller, yes. High tech vs. low tech = lots of death on low tech worlds, especially when the PCs engage in biological warfare.

In any other RPG, not yet, unless you count the slaying of the last of a monster race. That happened a couple times in D&D and T&T.