What is your favorite race for D&D?

[Neo]

Yeah but I remember playing in Decent into the Depths of the earth, Vault of the Drow and Queen of the Demon web pits. Those Dark Elves are so foul the best approch to dealing with them is a shoot first policy...

Foul, corrupt, callous, machivellian and inhuman(oid).. thats the dark drow - Like the Melnibonians the demonic is a part of them, its almost infused into them. Hate and envy seem to drive them on.

That other monsters are evil, is in their make up. With the drow you just know they just hated being good!. Now thats what I call evil....

But thats my point, with the exception of Drizzt .
Drow, even salavtores drow have always been exactly the same now as they have always been.

I still have my copy of Vault of the Drow, and theyre still black skinned, hand crossbow, poison tipped arrowed, magic sword wielding, magic armour wearing, darkness using individuals even there

 

[Golem2176]

Hey, one of the Seven Sisters is Drow!

 

[Allycat]

Only sorta, she's got a human type soul in a drow body if I'm given to understand the situ correctly.

 

[August]

Not precisely, but that's a fine estimation...

The Sister in question, Qilue, is a drow with the fragmented divine spirit of the seventh sister who died in the womb when her mother was slain by her distraught father. The full story is quite complicated and actually one of Greenwood's more "deep" forays into fiction.

I recommend the book Silverfall to anyone interested in learning more.

-August

 

[hassanisabbah]

Ok Drow are bad mothers - probably in ever sense of the word....

except those two... and all those terrible pcs they inspired around that time.

But heres to Lolths brood. Never bettered for evil

 

[Dag'Nabbit]

Ahh...but the world would be better off if ruled by Ogre Magi. :twisted:

 

[Sundog]

I prefer to play a surface elf. Just an "ordinary" one from the PHB.

 

[Judge Walker]

Elves all the way. All, particularly High (Noldor) Elves.

 

[Charke]

I started D&D so that I could play the non-humans and they have been a lot of fun. However in the limited time I have spent not behind the shield my favorite race has been the min-maxed half grey/aquatic elf grabbing up the Intelligence bonus to become a wizard and getting waterbreathing.
The ability to waterbreath has saved my characters' lives numerous times. I guess as a lifeguard that is the first escape route I look for but waterbreathing and flying will get you out of so much trouble it's not funny. I've just never managed the waterbreathing flying elf. Something to do in the future I guess.

Despite the fact that 3.0 has made humans the ultimate race again - extra abilities you choose is always better then fixed extra abilities, elves remain my favorite with humans a close second.

Mark Charke
www.Charke.ca

 

[El Cid]

I am thinking of playing a Rashaka (sp?) in the Living Plainer.

They have always facinated me.

Sidney

 

[Golem2176]

It is Rakshasa. They are an interesting race. The only thing that holds me back from playing one is the fact that they are susceptible to attacks from weapons with the type of 'holy.' One hit and you are dead. Too bad there isnt some way to buy this off.

 

[Dr. Rooster]

Kobolds!

Kobolds man! That was the race of my first D&D character. :lol:

 

[GregLynch]

I put in my vote for elf (the ordinary PHB high elf), but I'm kinda split between them and humans. Sometimes I'll even pick a dwarf.

But elves and dwarves are the only two nonhuman races I'll play (in standard D&D), as they're the only two I feel are sufficiently fleshed out - albeit in 3rd part fiction - to really get a handle on. I like to know what a character's society was like growing up, what are the social mores, all that basic stuff. Playing something grabbed out of one of the dozens of creature books out there that has, at most, one or two paragraphs of non-combat description leaves me cold.

 

[5.56 Surgeon]

I like the drow myself. Evil Drow :lol: . :twisted:

Yeah proper old skool drow, none of the drizz't generation namby pamby noncey ponceys. Like in the old days when drow were just plain callus, cruel, evil f**ks...

Oh hang on thats not a pc race is it....

Apart from Drizzt's father and one of his sisters having a brief momentary pause for thought... the only good drow has been Drizzt himself. He's hardly the forerunner of a new species of happy drow

The onyl other good drow in the realms are Eilistraee worshippers and they are predominantly females who have turned away from the worship of Lolth.

so by an large most elves current and old day versions ARE predominantly plain, viscious, callous, cruel, evil...you know whats.

The fact that masses of people got turned off to the Drow because of one novel's character not being a total git, says volumes about the state of todays societies :lol:

Yeah, but keep in mind the Eilistree Drow are crackers as is, they're freaking nuts.

I like to prefer Half Elves and Lizardfolk, but I mostly DM so I don't get a chance to be on the other side of the dice much. :?

 

[Burger]

If someone was playing D&D, what race would I play?
The 100m, to the pub.