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Your Favorite Humanoids

Started by RPGPundit, July 22, 2009, 12:33:12 PM

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July 22, 2009, 12:33:12 PM
Name your favorite humanoid race, and why.

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#1
July 22, 2009, 12:43:10 PM
Dwarves!

Short answer:  they're cool!

I like their nobility, stoicism, loyalty in the face of a low-birth rate and possible extinction.  Personally, I find easier for me to identify with the general characteristics of the Dwarven culture, personality, and philosophies.  Also, that in the Tolkien mythology they were truly the first created race.

MoonHunter

#2
July 22, 2009, 01:19:33 PM
Humans, well more accurately Humans Plus. Humans are like play-do, once you can get their basic shape... you can do anything to them.  Thus we get Humans plus something - Human+wolf, Human+demon, Human+angel, Human+tech, Human+magic, Human+fey, and so on.
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#3
July 22, 2009, 02:16:33 PM
If Humans count, then Humans. I like the diversity, the real depth, the many psychological possibilities. All fictional humanoid races are in many ways two-dimensional humans, and that makes them de facto inferior in my eyes.

If Humans don't count, then Dwarves.

Saladman

#4
July 22, 2009, 02:51:44 PM
Hobgoblins, especially the Kingdoms of Kalamar take on hobgoblins.  They're still lawful evil, but they respect personal honor as well as strength, so if you're strong enough you can sometimes deal with them.

So I guess the one step back from the "auto-attack" standard of evil humanoid races is part of what makes them interesting to me.

ColonelHardisson

#5
July 22, 2009, 03:09:42 PM
Dwarves. Tough, determined, hard-working, and they tend to make huge underground dwellings out of solid rock. There also tends to be an air of mystery to them in most sources, from Norse mythology to Tolkien to modern fantasy. This mystery ranges from their language, which is often unknown to any other race, to their ability to forge enchanted items, to the fact that their civilization is so rarely seen except in ruin.
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#6
July 22, 2009, 03:41:47 PM
Humans.
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#7
July 22, 2009, 03:50:48 PM
Goblinoids.

They make versatile encounters: at low levels, goblins with a hobgoblin leader make a good challenge, and at higher levels hobgoblins with goblin skirmishers and bugbear shock troops enter the picture.

And I like to join them with ogre magi, for some magical firepower.
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#8
July 22, 2009, 04:55:22 PM
Kalamaran Hobgoblins.

I also like the Golarian drow (though I seriously wished they fully revamped thier mythos and tossed out the matriarchical bent as well).
 

aramis

#9
July 22, 2009, 05:02:48 PM
MegaTraveller Aslan. Not the excrement MGP produced.

Claudius

#10
July 22, 2009, 05:26:51 PM
Vadhagh. I just like Corum a lot, much more than Elric. Otherwise I would've said Melnibonéans.
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#11
July 22, 2009, 05:38:29 PM
For some reason, I've always enjoyed halflings. 3e-style halflings, not the stupid hobbit-clones of 2e and earlier.

Though that may be due to having turned them into chocobo-riding nomadic gunslingers.
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#12
July 22, 2009, 05:40:23 PM
Quote from: GnomeWorks;315497For some reason, I've always enjoyed halflings. 3e-style halflings, not the stupid hobbit-clones of 2e and earlier.

Though that may be due to having turned them into chocobo-riding nomadic gunslingers.

I definitely like Dark Sun's take on halflings.

Zulgyan

#13
July 22, 2009, 06:11:52 PM
Humans.

If not applicable:

Amphibian, fishy, scaly type humanoids.

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#14
July 23, 2009, 01:51:47 AM
I hadn't really been thinking of humans as being on the list, but I guess its as valid a choice as any.

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