What's your favorite Race to Play?

Silverlion · September 03, 2012, 07:17:40 PM

Oh if we go outside fantasy?

Vrusk (Star Fronteirs)
Weren or Sesheyan (Alternity)
Aslan (Traveller)
Kyklopes (Hellas)
Sidhe (A variety of games.)
Trolls (Changeling: The Dreaming)
Were-lions (urban fantasy such as Witchcraft.)

Starcluster3: Whatever cool thing I rolled up this week.

My own settings:
Sidda,
Fomoradgh
Alderions (Shapeshfiters, which my superhero Kindred, came from)

And thousands others.

Telarus · September 04, 2012, 04:33:06 AM

Human. Humans in Earthdawn are AWESOME (not baseline... Dwarves are the baseline, most populous race). Humans get Versatility (a magical talent), and get to blur the "Classes" style archetypes a bit by learning Talents from outside their Discipline without having to Multiclass.

As a GM I've portrayed a bunch of NPCs and enjoy all of them.

deadDMwalking · September 04, 2012, 08:39:50 AM

Since Humans are the majority in most settings I've played in, it's probably no surprise that the majority of my characters have been human. They're my favorite by far, but I don't play any single race or class exclusively.

I also have played a fair number of elves and dwarves, in about equal number, and enjoy both.

I've played a warforged, and it was fun. I've played hobgoblins and half-orcs.

I do think it's easier to make humans more 'different' from each other than it is to make a dwarf different from another dwarf - not mechanically - but in personality. The non-human races tend to be stereotyped, and breaking out of that is pretty difficult.

RPGPundit · September 05, 2012, 01:57:04 PM

Goddamnit, I was being ironic.

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Panzerkraken · September 05, 2012, 03:35:14 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;580083Goddamnit, I was being ironic.

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I took one look at the Warforged and decided the same kind of people who ask to play full borgs in cyberpunk were playing those. And figured I'd use about the same size guns to get rid of them.

Dragonborn are for the lizard-furry anthropomorphiles. Pure fan service IMO. I bet theres whole pages of lemons on them.

deadDMwalking · September 05, 2012, 05:19:37 PM

Quote from: Panzerkraken;580111I took one look at the Warforged and decided the same kind of people who ask to play full borgs in cyberpunk were playing those. And figured I'd use about the same size guns to get rid of them.

Dragonborn are for the lizard-furry anthropomorphiles. Pure fan service IMO. I bet theres whole pages of lemons on them.

I don't understand why dragonborn females have breasts - you may be right.

As for Warforged, they're part of the setting, so playing them in Eberron (or a changeling, or a shifter) helps create the appropriate feel. Asking to play them outside of Eberron is another story. But as far as races go, they aren't anything super special. They're still 'people' in most of the ways that matter.

MGuy · September 05, 2012, 11:46:34 PM

I'll never get why there's so much Warforged hate.

TristramEvans · September 06, 2012, 12:03:00 AM

Quote from: MGuy;580249I'll never get why there's so much Warforged hate.

Because its twinky.

the same reason you got Synnibar hate back in the day.

I'd compare it to Rifts hate, but that game actually has a deridable joke of a system.

MGuy · September 06, 2012, 01:23:31 AM

Warforged? Umm humans are easier to twink out than warforged. I mean they get a bigger list of special stuff because they are construct people but they aren't really any more impressive then being a human minmax wise.

vytzka · September 06, 2012, 01:31:15 AM

Quote from: deadDMwalking;580147I don't understand why dragonborn females have breasts - you may be right.

Fanservice. What else is there to understand?

Quote from: MGuy;580249I'll never get why there's so much Warforged hate.

Personally, because they look dumb and don't fit into traditional D&D framework for me. Also, because they're taking the niche of Draconians without being nearly as cool.

beejazz · September 06, 2012, 09:16:01 AM

Quote from: MGuy;580269Warforged? Umm humans are easier to twink out than warforged. I mean they get a bigger list of special stuff because they are construct people but they aren't really any more impressive then being a human minmax wise.

Yep. Armor and a con bonus are easy to get, and not needing to eat sleep or breathe usually end up as fluff traits in 3.x.

I can see why some wouldn't like the fluff though. It's very Eberron, but not very anything else.

Bradford C. Walker · September 07, 2012, 08:00:54 AM

Quote from: MGuy;580269Warforged? Umm humans are easier to twink out than warforged. I mean they get a bigger list of special stuff because they are construct people but they aren't really any more impressive then being a human minmax wise.

Got to agree here. Warforged are a big letdown in practice compared to what the fluff make them out to be, so you're still better off rolling Human in usual Eberron campaigns.

RPGPundit · September 09, 2012, 04:24:11 AM

Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;580671Got to agree here. Warforged are a big letdown in practice compared to what the fluff make them out to be, so you're still better off rolling Human in usual Eberron campaigns.

Just the fact that they exist is letdown enough.

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TristramEvans · September 09, 2012, 02:23:09 PM

Quote from: MGuy;580269Warforged? Umm humans are easier to twink out than warforged.

I meant the concept itself was twinky, as in:

"We're playing a fantasy game, what kind of character would you like to play?"

"A cyborg death-knight!"

this induces groans and eyerolls in myself. YMMV natch.

MGuy · September 09, 2012, 03:18:17 PM

Quote from: TristramEvans;581302I meant the concept itself was twinky, as in:

"We're playing a fantasy game, what kind of character would you like to play?"

"A cyborg death-knight!"

this induces groans and eyerolls in myself. YMMV natch.

More like thinking golem. There's no reason I can think of that people would balk at a golem character you can play as without being OP but not balk at the existence of other golems or even inevitables.