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{Favorite} Fantasy Race?

Started by Silverlion, November 28, 2007, 05:56:40 PM

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Anemone

#15
November 29, 2007, 02:24:21 PM
Humans
T'skrang (Earthdawn swashbuckling reptilians)
Obsidimen (Earthdawn rock-folk)
Nezumi (L5R ratlings)
Durulz (Glorantha duck-folk)
Bronth (Jorune bear-people)
Thriddle (Jorune's answer to Pierson's Puppeteers -- an NPC race, but I love them!)
Skaven (WFRP ratlings)
Halflings (Xcrawl)
Agogwe (Nyambe's version of Halflings -- crabby, lethal and weaselly)
Trolls (Shadowrun)
Vorox (Fading Suns four-armed brutes with a dry sense of humour -- yes, FS is fantasy.  Just fantasy in space, is all.)
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Danger

#16
November 29, 2007, 03:29:11 PM
Gotta be dwarves when I'm not playing human.

When I play.
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droog

#17
November 29, 2007, 05:07:13 PM
Gloranthan trolls (AKA Uz). What's not to like?
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beeber

#18
November 29, 2007, 05:12:06 PM
elves.  i'm a tree-hugger at heart.
obsidimen from earthdawn are fun, too.
wanted to try skaven sometime, or slitheren from the scarred lands. . . .

Rupert

#19
November 29, 2007, 05:39:51 PM
Elfs, then Humans, generally. It depends on the way elfs are treated by the game in question, though - I never liked Dark Sun's elves, but I do like Shadow World's treatment.

When I'm GMing my elfs tend to be utter bastards so they get more screen time than my dwarfs (even though I probably like them as much) because they act as obstacles for the PCs more often than dwarfs do.
 

sithson

#20
November 29, 2007, 06:17:05 PM
Personally, I dont gravitate twoards any one race than the other, or favor one. I usually pick one and go with it.

I find it facinating how alot of people pick human as the race they favor most. Perhaps its the easiest to simulate, ;D. One poster gave a pretty good explination of why he chose humans, and I think to the most part that playing a different race is subjective to perhaps your own outlook of what they should or should not be.

However I will add that one of my favorite characters is a Gnome. :D
 

architect.zero

#21
November 29, 2007, 06:56:51 PM
I didn't think the point of this thread was to explain our preference, just state it.  But I suppose...

Non-humans are just humans with deformities who happen to be from stereotypical mono-cultures.

So, humans all the way.

beeber

#22
November 29, 2007, 08:10:20 PM
you're a human every day.  humans are boring.

other races are a blank parchment to fill however i want, within the limitaitions placed by the referee or setting.

Mcrow

#23
November 29, 2007, 08:20:58 PM
Dwarves.

Seems appropriate for me.:D

Kiero

#24
November 29, 2007, 08:21:20 PM
Quote from: beeberyou're a human every day.  humans are boring.

Speak for yourself. I'm far more interested in how my fellow human deals with an  alien world, than how some alien thinks.
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beeber

#25
November 29, 2007, 08:25:38 PM
Quote from: KieroSpeak for yourself. I'm far more interested in how my fellow human deals with an  alien world, than how some alien thinks.

i am.

how your human deals, etc.?  so you play the lone human in an orcish (or whatever) society, then?  interesting.  

the alien pointing out the oddities in human society is fun, too.  so much material, especially since many worlds end up being human-centric anyway.

droog

#26
November 29, 2007, 08:42:13 PM
Yes, I think non-humans are good for someone wanting to play a theatrical mask, as it were. They give you an opportunity to play a chr who is an exaggeration of some aspect of humanity.
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#27
November 29, 2007, 09:19:01 PM
Humans followed closely by hobgoblins.
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#28
November 29, 2007, 09:46:47 PM
Quote from: beeberhumans are boring.


you need to spend more time looking at porn.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Xanther

#29
November 29, 2007, 10:13:14 PM
Quote from: architect.zero...

Non-humans are just humans with deformities who happen to be from stereotypical mono-cultures.

...

Well if you put it that way, then humans.  But there is no requirement non-humans be mono-cultural.  It may be the case because of lack of imagination in most commercial settings they are.
 
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