I thought something fun we could do is find out what race everyone likes the best or has the most fun playing. See the fantasy racial makeup of Veeky Forums‘s setting. Pick ANY race you want, but I would prefer fetish or literal-who snowflake races not apply (like Driders and Cataurs), but post if you want and I’ll be sure to fit you in if there’s room. Elffags, please specify your subrace, if any, and half-fags will be lumped in with their non-human parent’s race (unless that’s exceptionally unpopular).
I’ll tally up the results when the thread 404s and post it same time tomorrow (11am EST) and around the board.
Discuss your races, have (fantasy) race wars, and remember to not reply to /pol/ posts/“go back to /pol/“ posts
I guess goblins? Picking a single favorite is hard. Trolls are good too.
Jeremiah Scott
It is, but I figure it’s best for the integrity of the poll. Or as good as it gets on an anonymous board
Michael Parker
Human
Christopher Reyes
Hobgoblins
Joshua Reed
Dragons
Isaac Perry
Humans
Zachary Anderson
Humans
Dylan Rodriguez
I like Elves. High Elves specifically, mostly because those are usually depicted as having no freaky traits appearance-wise.
Beautiful, graceful, elegant, cultured, civilized, having an affinity for magic and all those other cliches are what I consider attractive, so elves are the closest thing to perfection according to my personal preference.
Despite that, I mostly end up playing rugged grumpy skeezy human dudes somehow.
Kevin Torres
Can I downvote a most hated race instead of picking a favourite?
Jace Martinez
I'm gonna say Dragonborn.
Jaxson Gutierrez
I mean, voting for another race also dilutes the percentage of the race you hate
Isaiah Taylor
Humans
Jonathan Kelly
I prefer to play humans, you have the most variety of them all. Goblins and Trolls are my preferd non playing race for what is worth.
Xavier Perry
Dorf
Luis Hernandez
Do giants and undead count as a race? Or are they just modified versions of other races?
Benjamin Powell
Undead.
Hudson Gutierrez
If I have to pick a single one I pick humans.
Aiden Baker
I'd say giants are a separate race, at least in DnD they are, but undead are not.
Brody Peterson
Snake men if they're an option, humans if they're not
Adrian Gray
Dwarves.
Jackson Kelly
Giants are a separate race.
Most undeads are just modified from another race.
There are a small number of undead races who are uniquely undead.
Tyler Barnes
Kobold
Tyler Cook
>no special snowflakes Fuck you Changelings best race
Jose Bailey
Goliath
Chase Baker
Plaguebearers are best race
Tzeentch is a shitter
Nurgle is best chaos dad
Jordan Flores
Giants
honorable mention for lizardfolk (not dragonborn or kobold, they some gay shit), whale people, and trolls (the old kind that are big with tusks and not some mindless regenerating monster in the swamps)
Hudson Reyes
ORKZ IZ DA BIGGEST AND DA BEST!!! WAAAAAGGH!
Chase Williams
/dorf/ obviously, but always clean-shaven.
Lucas Sullivan
High Elves are the most powerful race on the planet (pic semi-related)
Nathaniel Robinson
Undead.
Henry Parker
Always been keen on small races, Dwarves, Halfling, Gnomes, Goblins. Hard to decide.
From a pure mechanical (5e) standpoint Lightfoot since you can hide behind your friends.
Orcs get a honorable mention when I feel like mixing it up.
Jaxson Foster
My favorite race is the kind of OP that doesn't shit up other threads by linking to their shitty thread.
Fuck off.
Jackson Hall
So far we have: Changelings: 1 Dragonborn: 1, Dragon: 1, Dwarves: 3 Giants: 1, Goblin: 1, Goliath: 1 Halflings: 1, High Elves: 2, Hobgoblin: 1, Humans: 6 Kobold: 1 Orc/ks: 2 Snakes men: 1 Undead: 2 and one : 1
Jonathan Scott
I feel bad for trolls, they have gotten like three honorary mentions but no actual votes.
Adrian Peterson
Fairies. Always fairies. Preferably the oldschool Fae who get burned by Iron, time travel and trick mortals into bargains. Cute pixies are fine too though.
Isaac Butler
"Human-with-ears-and-tail" beastfolk. >but user, those are fetish snowflakes! Then humans.
Logan Taylor
Stop posting links to other threads you retard.
Juan Brooks
Source for this.
Also, giants.
Brody Ortiz
Don't forget little fangs, and optional cat eyes and stripes.
Carter Taylor
I usually shop for the best stats, and that generally puts me on human or elf. Coincidentally, I do like playing those a lot more than kitsune drider magical girl kenku.
Justin Thomas
Warforged. Beep-boop, motherfucker.
Sebastian Martinez
OP here, I’ll allow Undead, but you’re getting lumped with every Undead variant Satan is right in saying Giants are a race
Noah Myers
I know what post you’re talking about. One polite post isn’t shitting up a thread.
Leo Ortiz
Good point.
I like to differentiate them as much as possible without going into outright furry territory.
Hudson Martinez
Goblins. Or Orcs. Make it Orcs if they need additional votes to win.
And just for the sake of discussion, the unfavourite are Dwarves. Also Kobolds, but they are mostly because of cringy Kobold fags. Yeah, and bullshit like Warforged or whatever other autistic snowflake crap there is in DnD.
Carter Hall
UNDEAD
WHAT'S GOOD NIGGGGGGUUHHSS
Gavin Nguyen
I like Orcs and Goblins, but not Hobgoblins, or if there must be Hobgoblins then they're more Orc like and then there are no Orcs. I see this big red asshole in the Monster Manual listed as "Hobgoblin" and frankly I just don't see it.
Thomas Flores
Human
Jackson Roberts
Ice/Snow Elves. Snow white eyes, hair and skin is aesthetic as fuck
With an honorable mention for Trolls seems to be the thread’s meme
Ian Scott
Are skeletons Undead or are they their own thing?
I like jolly, carefree skeletons who trade corpses from other races to free their brothers trapped inside
Nathan Lopez
Tieflings for me
Gavin Perry
>I’ll allow Undead, but you’re getting lumped with every Undead variant What about undead giants?
Nah, I’ll mark you down for Beastfolk. You’re good, user
Levi Brooks
When they're made cool and interesting. 40k and Tolkein can get out of my face.
Justin Sanders
Humans
Wyatt Flores
I meant to say Orcs at the beginning there, but ate my own sentence I guess.
David Morris
Fuck yeah! Orcs get my vote
Cooper Adams
I'll vote Orcs as well.
John Martin
But OP, how are you planning to deal with samefags?
Oliver Richardson
Humans or any beastfolk.
Christopher Cook
Spiderfolk with Nerubian morphology.
Asher Young
thri-kreen idk i just like being multi-armed and dangerous. nobody ever really considers just how useful an extra pair of arms would be in a society built for people with only two.
honorable mention to Warforged and Changelings though.
Christian Gray
You can’t. Stawpolls people will just change their IP
Tyler Watson
Dorfses
Christian Cook
Drow/dark elf
Levi Robinson
Hobgoblins, though Goblinoids in general are fine too, but they just don't reach the pinnacle that is Hobgoblin war autism.
Not the OP, but I'm doing census so others have the numbers. This does not include those of you who have listed two races side by side with no preference for one or the other.
Ian Thompson
Hey, I appreciate that man. Hopefully more will chime in as people get out of work and school
Michael Morales
Gimme the dingy smallfolk any day. I love skulking Goblins, Skaven/Ratfolk, Kobolds, some disgusting and conniving little bastards. Ratfolk especially. runner up skelebro
Dylan Baker
So jot you down for ratfolk?
Justin Anderson
Me neither. Hobgoblins look off in 5e. What are they supposed to be? Lion-people? I prefer pic related
Gabriel White
Undead fo sho
Noah Roberts
Dwarves for life.
Dylan Gomez
Tieflings, fuck you I like them
Landon Powell
I'm currently playing a Dragonborn, and I think it would be fun to play a Thri-Kreen or a Centaur
Jeremiah Lee
They're supposed to be big goblins. The aim was to make them distinct from orcs, but it turns out everyone just wants militarized orcs.
Jaxon Harris
I like uniform, turathian style tieflings. Fight me.
Andrew Reyes
Dwarves. For I am mightily fond of drink and industry.
Zachary Cook
Also kobold.
John Cox
Orcs are my favorite to play, but Goblins will always have a soft spot in my heart.
Ian Martinez
>be black >watching bright >relate to orc mc more than actual people what's wrong with me
Adam Scott
Nothing wrong with Tieflings. You do you
James Nguyen
BlackAnon, you’re exactly the person I wanted to talk to. I have Panthers jerseys and I want to cosplay as a Bright Orc for Halloween. Is that racist? t. A white
Camden Ortiz
I like elves. The Tolkien-ish kind that lives in the forest but somehow has an advanced society anyway.
Asher Martin
I'm fucking it up by not being honorable mention, but trollfolk best folk.
Henry Taylor
post empty pizza box so we can make a map you faget
Christopher Jones
>Implying living in total harmony with nature isn't the most advanced form society can take Lesser races just don't understand
Easton Miller
Had a blast playing a Kitsune once. Alas, the DM hated it. Barring that, Catfolk.
Evan Diaz
nope. you're fine. nobody will be able to see your blackface under the orc paint
Liam Hernandez
kobold
Nathan Sanchez
They don't actually align with black stereotypes all that closely. They're mostly just lower class tropes with vaguely orcish flare mixed in. They're only compared to blacks because black is synonymous with lower class in many people's minds, which is ironically even more racist.
Andrew Jackson
Human master raaaaaace!
Jordan Gomez
In America. In Britain, you have chavs and hooligans. In eastern Europe, gypsies. Everyone has a group that is a byword for "poor, uncivilized folk", it's just that Americans think theirs matters most, and has the world thinking it too by exporting their pop culture. It's why Japanese people unironically think every black dude is hung like a horse, because American pop culture told them that.