What does somebody's favourite fantasy race to play tell you about that player?

What does somebody's favourite fantasy race to play tell you about that player?

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>Dwarf: Bro

>Elf: Faggot

>implying this thread will be anything but shit flinging

Tbh I always find it to be that players who religiously play one race are faggots, regardless of what race they play.

Dorf PCs are always bitter drunks who are always armed with axes and accents.
Elf PCs are also dainty borderline mary sue wanna be faggots, usually either of wizard or ranger variety.

There's also tiefling players who are almost always edgelords.

If players have a favorite race, they probably have a favorite class too. I almost never see anyone playing elf-barbarians or Orc wizards unless they're deliberately trying to be contrarian. Sadly I almost NEVER see anyone play a race for their culture, except for maybe dwarves.

Dunno if it's a bad thing or not, you just asked me what it tells me about them.

if ELF then GAY

Threadly reminder that the dwarf = neckbeard meme is just perpuated by a handful of those same neckbeards who were bullied for playing elves.

Nice ebin meh me

Nothing.

It tells you whether or not they have the grace, physical prowess and swagger necessary to be a Human or not

The only good race is lizardfolk

That half-orc will never not make me laugh.

Mostly what their favorite fantasy race to play is.

Too reasonable. More insults required.

Mostly what their favorite fantasy race to play is, you fucker.

People play halflings for their culture,
Gnomes too.

I really like playing Gnomes and Halflings because outside of the artificer gnome and halfling rogue archetype, there's some really interesting concepts. Ranger-types and Cleric-types are especially fun as Gnome/Halfling

It means they are insecure about something due to having some deepseated issues born out of being social rejects and other stuff that I learned about in Psych 101

Because dude nerds lmao horrible people.

By the way I'm exempt from all of the above. Trust me.

I play human fighters or human clerics because I'm boring and wish I was capable and that god was on my side.

If they play a race I don't like then they're shit

It's just player's favorite race. My friends always play as humans (except for one guy, who plays as an elf). We just create different characters each time, because race archetypes are fucking retarded.

I like playing elves that are gigantic snooty assholes that don't understand comedy, have a bizarre sense of morality, and most importantly are actively despised by pretty much anyone they meet.

That half orc face needs to

And now I just realized that I play as tall mystical autists, shit.

I love playing tieflings because I enjoy the whole dichotomy of nature vs nurture.

It may help that my tieflings tend to have relatively happy childhoods, at least from their parents.

I will admit to my first character ever being edgy as fuck, but then, I was 15.

The problem with fantasy races is that they are all just humans, with a certain personality trait tied to them, and with a deifferent look (a bit different).

Oh I agree entirely, there need to be more non-human things in fantasy games to make things more interesting. I've always wanted to play as a Modron, but I stopped playing D&D a while ago so finding somebody that's willing to GM Planescape without the D&D rules AND let me play as a rogue modron would be pretty much impossible.

Don't think it works, but what are the stereotypes, exactly?

>dwarf = neckbeard
>human = either /pol/ or boring new guy
>elf or furry = teenager, girl, or sperg
>dark elf = "I like Drizzt"
>orc = English major
>dragonborn, aasimar, tiefling, etc... = weeaboo
>halfling or gnome = pedo

Dwarf: Every player I've run a game for who's been a dwarf has been a de-railing arsehole who has their character act like a total autist because "I'm a dwarf, this is what dwarves do!" without realising that any actual dwarves would be disgusted with them for bringing shame to their race by acting like violent retards. Pro-tip: actual dwarves would ignore any elf who did not provoke them, and if said elf did provoke them, they would fight the elf fairly. An actual dwarf would not spy an elf going about her day, and then immediately decide "I am a dwarf, so I must break into her house at night and violently beat her and her husband to death while they sleep!"
Elf: elf players are either
a) men/women who just want to play a supermodel with pointy ears (nothing especially wrong here, unless they start getting into 'look at how pretty I am' territory)
b) Weeb faggots who make their mary-sue character and then hog the GM's attention.
Half-elf: (see the answer for Elf.)
Half-orc: somebody who wants to play a Barbarian or run the whole "My mother was raped by orc barbarians" for the umpteenth time.
Gnome: LolRandumb asshole.
Halfling: Fantasy casuals who really liked the Hobbit.
Human: Everyone who doesn't fit into the above. Some are better, some are worse.
Other: (see human)

>orc = English major
What? Why? Or maybe it's ironic and I didn't get it?

Alos I think it would be more like
>halfling/gnome = asshole shitflinger/lolrandumb

Better.

Don't forget the odd min-maxer who just picks whichever race works best with their build

All orcs have majors in english. Why else do you have such beautiful orcish works such as
>Rape, Kill, Eat
Or the controversial classic
>Kill, Rape, Eat
And lets not forget the absurdist work
>Eat, Kill, Rape
Overall there are at least 6 such famous works.

Dwarf:
>Drinks lots of beer in real life and think this somehow makes him cool. Actually a bro, but sometimes obnoxious. Hates elves because they're obviously faggots.

Halfling/gnome:
>Probably ADHD, and is here for the lolz. Will fuck shit up all the time and play it off as "that's what the characer would do".

Elf:
>Either new player that wans to try the obvious most magical race or one of those "if my character isn't beautiful I'm not playing" kind of people.

Human:
>Anti-snowflake contrarians that probably have a 12 pages-long character backstory written and feel like their character is actually the best written thing ever because "muh human overcoming obstacles".

Half-orc:
>This guy wants to smash things with the biggest mace the game has to offer or thinks that he's oh-so-clever and subversive by making a smart, calm and peaceful half-orc.

Half-elf:
>"I don't know what to make, sounds cool, I guess"

>that guy who, when choosing a race for his character, puts down the PHB and instead picks up the Monster Manual

Sauce?

>"I don't know what to make, sounds cool, I guess"
This is why I always play half-elf.

We need to go deeper.

>Magic Users = Spergs and Neckbeards
>Fighters = Jocks, Meatheads and Normies
>Rogues = 3Edgy6me Underage Teens
>Healers/Clerics = Autistic turbofat Fuckbois
>Mageknights and dumb shit like that = Weak-willed special snowflakes children that cant even choose between two proficiencies

Boku no Pico

Underrated post.

I don't know if i am an exception, but when i make an elf it's usually Warhammer style snooty snob who despises other things or a complete reverse of it where they act like a doting parent so that the "younger races" don't hurt themselves. Tieflings i play as any half-something races, that is to say they either embrace one of their heritages or goes "fuck it, i'll just adventure and see what comes of it".

To me dorfs are usually grumpy buttfuck-wise assholes who have seen everything and have grown tired of it

>le human is boring
>le human with pointy ears/short human is better

I've only encountered one dwarf fan, and he's the fattest and neckbeardiest guy in our group. He's not a bad guy or anything, in fact I love having him in may games, but he's still the fattest and neckbeardiest.

Anecdote, I know, but that's all these threads are.

Elf and Kender players are always faggots.

>Human: normie

>non-standard race with a +5 level adjustment
>"I'm stronk"

Human players come in three varieties:

>new or new-ish player too afraid of the options available to try out anything, probably also made the most generic possible archetype of the class he chose, too

>guy who thinks anyone who plays anything other than human is a special snowflake and probably made his character inexplicably human supremacist

>guy who came up with a cool character concept but forgot he was playing a fantasy game with multiple unique races so he just chose the "safe" option for when you don't want to have to roleplay anything with natural inclinations of any kind so it wouldn't conflict with the character concept he came up with

Supremacist characters are not restricted to Humans. Ran a brief campaign once (by brief I mean one-session) where the PC's all rolled Halflings, and immediately abandoned the plot I was dangling in front of their faces because they decided they felt like playing as "Halfling Hitler and his companions, Halfling Goering and Halfling Goebbels" who were going to "purge all the non-Halflings from the Halfling lands!".

An amusing idea, I acknowledge, and it might have made a nice parody campaign, but I was fuming mad because I'd spent two months meticulously planning the setting and story, only to have said story abandoned and forgotten about within half an hour of gameplay. By the end of the session, they'd slit the throat of a half-elf bard as she sang, bombed a town of peaceful humans terrorist-style, and joined the bad guy.

>he makes a story
>he cares about setting

>track down pic
>title of story suggests cute succubus
>actually a cute incubus

Damn you japan.

>Bless you Japan
Fix'd for accuracy

Do you thank Nurgle for his blessings every time you get sick too?

What does that have to do with the price of umbrellas in Nigeria?

link?

I really like Dragon Age's Qunari

That they have a favourite race.

I always play as a skaven. What does that say about me

One guy in my group played a halfling almost every time.
He fucking loved them.

He'd play every class he could but mostly stuck to being a stabby little shit.
I wonder what he's doing.

Personally I like humans the most.

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Half-orc spurdo sparde

Holy shit kek

thank you kindly

That you are trying too hard to not play to common races.

Elves are shit desu

Sometimes this board reminds me why I hang out on it. Kudos.

What interests them, to a degree. I find people who play the designated "strong guy" race tend to want some gritty action. The "smart guy" race players often enjoy a more mystical element. The "handsome guy" race often yearns for politicking. Etc, etc. Seems obvious, but can be a huge help when a GM wants to mix things up a bit.

why did Paizo take out that pic from their rulebook?

>playing anything but half-elves or humans

There you go!

I always play human barbarians because I wish I would be a buff alpha like conan.

Underrated post

Will Veeky Forums finally take me in if I call elf players faggots?

Yee

Your elf is completely wrong

Honestly, It's been a long time since I've played a campaign where we didn't fuck around with what the different species were/do. That said, when you give players the ability to have some say in the creation of the culture for their races, you get to see what race they gravitate to. Our barbarian basically wrote up the entirety of Dwarven civilization, and made them industrial revolution mafia dwarves.

My favorite race is always kobolds or goblins, because I love playing as the shitty cannon fodder race. It makes for fun characters when no one will believe your kobold is a barbarian, because really?

Third is me. Human is always a safe bet, and more feats are fantatstic

>Beastfolk
Furry
>Kobold
Furry who has a particularly sick fetish and chooses something a little more removed from the norm to compensate

Kingdom of Heaven is a state of mind.

>Dwarf
The last guy who played a Dwarf made a Dwarf Monk who was very much a practitioner of Drunken Boxing. That was a less serious campaign but a fun romp.

>Elves
Currently in a group with an Elf. It (Player refuses to say if it's a male of female) is a complete retard.

>Gnome
In a group with a Gnome Monk. Plays her very cheerful and good natured

What if I"m a black guy who likes orcs and jacks off to amateur cuck porn because it's the only readily-available genre that has black guys fucking milfs consistently?

All gnome players are ahitters
fucking RETARD

I hate gnomes I AM GOING NG SUIT , B TH DUCKING GNOMES

I'm not a big fan of gnomes, but it's fantasy, you can make gnomes whatever the hell you want. They don't have to be something objectionable.

Normies play Dragonborns and Tieflings. Every time I have made characters with one they skim through the Race chapter and stop at those too because they think they are cool.

Sorcerer is the Normie class too, and both of those races can make good ones.

I really like bird races that look extra, well, "birdy".

Its kind of comical with long necked and song birds.

What about goblin players?

I want to play a tall malkavian gnome

My Dorf PC was a drunk yes. But only because that was the only way he could commune with his god. He was a Paladin and worshiped the god of brewing. He had an iron bound flagon with metal studs that he used as a mace. It was enchanted to refill itself with beer constantly. If I was ever sober I lost my Paladin abilities until I was drunk again. He wasn't bitter either, infact he was quite jovial

You should play as a green heron and every now and then you say "ZOOOOOP". Penis jokes are a must, too.

Funnily enough, that's kind of what Gnomes are in the setting I run. They're not that short, and they're mortal descendants of faeries, which are crazy amoral extraplanar beings with god complexes. Basically all gnomes are some form of high functioning psychopath.

I just pick the race that has the best stats for my class and then put hours into the story for them. Played Human, Half-Orc, Human, Drow, Human, Human, Half-elf.

Human variant OP.

I would think that people with ADHD would never play the same race twice rather than play gnomes or whatever all the thin. Probably change characters a couple times during the campaign too. This is me, I've done all these things.

Well I like playing Humans in D&D 5e because they get a +1 to all stats, which is nice.

Living out your pet rat's power fantasy

>I religiously play as [race I like] but people who play [race I don't like] are objectively uncreative
Whoa there, really impressed me with your human fighter and dorf who hates elves.

Please tell me more about how I lack creativity for playing anything other than a human peasant, or how much of a literary masterpiece your pally with the crappy family is.

I like elves mainly for the weird reason that they keep well. They go for several human lifetimes before you even have to roll to see when you'll die of old age. I play them usually as tight, competence-oriented packages who grew out of immature bullshit about a century ago and are now all business all of the time.

I like playing humanoids. Kobolds, kenku... that sort of thing. I just never get to. Its fun coming up with why they are with the party, and I'm kinda bored of the standard races. Problem is, I know my GM doesn't want me to. He never says no, but there is always this heavy sigh of "what fucking rules and exceptions am I going yo have to make?" So I generally don't bring it up. In my other game, the GM is all about weird shit, but I tend to be forced into the "person who makes rhe story move along" role, and any time I make a character that doesn't fit that, the game just stalls.

why you talking shit about the "having a good time wherever he goes" half-orc?

My favorite race is dragon ogres, get fucked Normies.

They would actually give no fucks about anything of you think they mature like humans do. I mean look at old people, they give no fucks.

I always take the +1 to 2 stats and the feat. Lets me customize my character more instead of just being average

Humans would mature a bit differently if they stayed in their prime for 300 years then rolled 6d100 to see when they'll die. And elves who bother to go out adventuring are probably of the sort who like their work. You don't stay a thief for eighty years if it's just a day job for you. And you don't stay alive as a thief for eighty years by being fond of games and nonsense.

And my first elf thief was named Garret and my second elf thief Leon, so there might be some bias involved.

When a person's favorite race is Elf, it tells me his favorite race is Elf.

When a person's favorite race is Dwarf, it tells me his favorite race is Dwarf.

That's fucking all.