What's your favorite race, Veeky Forums?
(except humans, who we already know to objectively be #1)
What's your favorite race, Veeky Forums?
James Cook
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Robert Harris
Dunmer from Elder Scrolls, because they're the only "Dark Elves" or "Dark-anything" race I've ever seen done in a setting in an interesting way ever.
Shame they got a whole lot more boring in recent games with the Tribunal gone and Morrowind itself FUBAR'd
Luis Peterson
This nigga is my nigga, to be honest. Dunmer a best.
Jackson Hall
agreed
Juan Anderson
Pre 4e, and forget about fucking 5e, gnolls. I'm just a sucker for hyenas and gnolls are basically hyenas.
Aiden Edwards
>human #1
No, not really.
Ian Martin
shhhh we're just trying to keep the HFY fags quiet
Hunter Johnson
I like orcs, they are generally the ones with the second most sensible motivations after humans.
From more exotic races I like giants and ogres, especially if they differ from DnD variants like in Shadowrun or Dominions Agartha. More beastly variants are ok to a degree too. Does any setting have sentient insectoid ogre?
Alexander Peterson
>sentient insectoid ogre
I'm afraid those three words directly contradict each other user
Julian Anderson
The Black Fey from Agone are really fun. Immortal fairies cursed to sleep every 70 years, and forget their previous lives. They can speak to inanimate objects and, if they ask them about their dreams, awaken their soul. Their also skilled artists, and have an unparalleled talent for Concord (The practice of magical Art: Paintings that fly off the page, Statues that come to life, Music that controls minds, and Poetry that bends the nature of time).
Anthony Thomas
Well insectoids exists and they have much higher bodytype variety than most races.
How is it absurd to think that some are just really big? Doesn't seem to be a problem for lizardmen.
Benjamin Miller
IRL most insects can't grow beyond a certain size because they'll either collapse under their own weight, or need too much oxygen to survive.
Then again, a very fair case could be made for "fuck realism, we're playing a game" so why not actually
Leo Cook
The Therians are a immortal synthetic race of Internet junkies and eternal shitposters who plan to defeat entropy by converting entire galaxies into their Universal Big Dyson Sphere.
They also attack other races for fun and despite their technological supremacy lose quite often because the all-powerfull Therian race forgot stuff like tactics and strategy during the ages. They are a bit like GrimDark Irken, the rich, spoiled assholes of the universe.
Jaxson Nelson
> (except humans, who we already know to objectively be #1)
Charles Brown
Aren't Shadowrun ogres just fat orks with strong stomachs?
Jayden Ross
Let them come and bitch. Smacking down hfy scum with facts should be a national pastime.
Elijah Jenkins
See
Colton Lopez
Well there are subspecies, some looking pretty abominable and others more human.
But every race in Shadowrun is technically human.
Hunter Butler
>facts
>he thinks his shit race matters despite not even having the balls to literally exist
Whatever you have to say it's irrelevant humans are best because we own reality.
Wyatt Sanchez
> not being an elf who is so perfect that even despite non-existence humans dream of their superiority over mankind.
Jace James
Warforged, because robots are cool.
Wyatt Sanchez
Just because they have an insectoid appearance doesn't mean the interior makeup is necessary the same.
Jaxson Stewart
I really like any sort of avian. I think in general, birds are cool as heck with tons of variety and potential yet almost nobody seems to ever consider them. They could easily replace any core race due to their numerous possible subtypes/subraces and their widespread nature makes them as adaptable as humans are in regards to living in different locales.
Landon Perez
Probably one of the most done versions of the archetype and generaly one of the most well done Evil races that arent a generic "Barbarian horde" or "backstabbing politics evil".
Sadly there are few modern games that take influence form those guys. The franchise they originate from is dead and it was never known for having amazing lore.
Truly a shame tho. These guys had the chance to become *the* unifying iconic Reptile race.
Right now thats WHFBs Lizardmen but WHFBs Lizardmen dont do very well outside of an ONLY WAR setting.
Cooper Perry
They still fall just short of actual existence which makes them inherently lesser.
Ian Campbell
> dirtying thyself with reality
2d > 3d, fantasy > reality. Face it.
Luke Ramirez
Broken logic, broseph.
The first 3 require reality to survive which inherently makes them inferior.
Austin Davis
Importance does not dictate quality.
Christopher Miller
Quality is irrelevant as import is above all in such things.
Take your highest quality elf and they will pale in comparison to the import of a basic human simple because one exists and the other doesn't.
Ethan Richardson
I really dig rat-people.
But I really hate the amount of furries that are associated with them. And that they're more often than not just fuzzy goblins that pillage.
Samuel Perez
This. They work in everything from stone-age fantasy to far-future posthumanist settings and pretty much anything inbetween, I have no idea why they're so underrepresented.
Jack Wright
The Fae and the goblin family for me.
Isaac Clark
>I like ___
>But I don’t like the people who like it
So ignore them? It’s baffling that peoplewith this mentality even like anime anymore, considering the sheer magnitude of obnoxious weebs out there (and especially on Veeky Forums).
Jonathan King
its just a way people want to protect themselves from beeing called a furry
Joseph Bennett
I do ignore them, but that doesn't stop them from being obnoxious.
I don't want to fuck them, rats are just cool.
Bentley Hall
im not saying you do.
but its pointless to try to defend yourself from people who will attack you for badwrongfun.
Theyll just pretend you wanna fuck em anyway.
You dirty fucking furry.
Christopher Ross
Gnomes
Landon Hughes
>not wanting to fuck the rats
Tyler James
Oh, way too many... but, I'm a huge fan of 4e's rendition of Gnolls and Bladelings, specifically, and outside of that... probably Aranea.
Jace Bailey
But Gnomes are cool.
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Leo Cruz
fpbp
Grayson Walker
>AT-43
I morn with you brother.
I loved the Karman's, the yeti-gorillas who realised they were being manipulated by the Therians so made themselves more usefully as shock troops and gurilla fighters.
Eli Ramirez
>I don't want to fuck them
I'm sorry? I understand all of those words individually but they don't make any sense when combined like that
Adam Ortiz
snek
Brayden Lopez
I -do- like me some snek.
Colton White
Made for fighting and for winning.
Noah Martin
Thomas Jenkins
Tieflings or Drow
Sebastian Walker
Angels. I admire perfection.
Oliver Sullivan
>snek
But only if it's three-quarters snek, one quarter humanoid. That's the best kind of snek.
Kevin Evans
Uplifted bear.
Neo-whales are also kinda cool, but they're pretty impractical to play unless you put them in some other morph.
Parker Moore
any kind of snek is best
Josiah Hall
Musicians.
Lincoln Ward
Everything about this post is correct.
Adam Kelly
Spider.
Mason Reed
Spider!
Charles Fisher
Damn it, posted in a newer duplicate thread. Skeletons/liches and Thri-Kreen/the other, more obscure mantisfolk
>tfw you can't play as a single one of these in 5e
Jaxson Harris
This guy is gonna be so excited when he finds out about homebrew
Grayson Barnes
Homebrew is almost never balanced correctly and Kreen homebrew in particular is always a broken mess. Nobody wants to be that guy.
Jose Murphy
Hrm, now I'm wondering how wildly impractical it would be for a species to have both an endo- and exoskeleton...
Dylan Walker
Well I mean as long as the exoskeleton has decent articulation
Eli Bailey
Xenomorphs and the carapacians in Homestuck are like that, it's neat.
Henry Young
Kobolds yo.
Xavier Turner
I think it's funny how many different Kobold descriptions there are.
There's the dog and lizard kerfuffle, and I always knew them as the giant rat things from WoW.
Levi Murphy
Which really makes me wonder; what's wrong with having kobolds be bunnyfolk/lizardfolk hybrids in your homebrew setting?
Sebastian James
rabbits scream real bad.
Don't ever use them as a thing you have to regularly fight and kill.
That's why we invented rabbit punching.
Oliver Gonzalez
There's really very few HFY fags left. And thank God for that.
Cooper Cruz
Number Demons
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Unironically goblins. They're scrappy and designated underdogs and I like that, especially when they're also little mad scientists. And I find green skin aesthetically pleasing
Daniel Cruz
Heeell yeah
Elijah Hughes
Yeah. Sad but accurate.
Charles Foster
Wow that's pretty neat. Very flavorful and evocative
Jayden Carter
I'm amenable to most types of snek so long as it's not just animu monster girls
Mason Reyes
that's just an off color gnome slut
Nathan Roberts
I think hags are pretty cool.
Liam Nelson
Me too
Sebastian Carter
I've always had a soft spot for medusas, to the point where I'm actually in the process of publishing a pathfinder rulebook with a bunch of content I've done for them. Snek? Snek! Snëëëëëëëk!
Dylan Edwards
I like so many fantasy races. I'm a big fan of anthro ones, especially when they throw in the various stereotypes of the animals and build them with some interesting and unique elements.
I'm also a fan of strangely colored and modified humans; such as elves, dwarves, those half-elemental or genie people from D&D whatever they are called. I think these are pretty underrated.
I also like generic monster races that are given a touch up and a bit of humanity. Goblinoids, ogre types, trolls, maybe even things like mind flayers could be given a bit more redeeming factors and turning down their power curve a bit to make them into an interesting race.
Truthfully, I'm a huge fan of science fiction style races though. They're a lot more creative then fantasy races usually, and I don't just mean really dumb super non-human aliens I mean things like weird flower reptile people or whatever that just don't look like a generic race. Plus they tend to have much more creative cultures and weird ass technology or powers due to their nature as science fiction creatures in vast universes. I've always wondered if it would be possible to mix up a fantasy setting by making the races more science fiction inspired instead of fantasy inspired, but I like both.
Andrew Lopez
Plant anything. From big monstrous ents to plant-themed anime girls, anything plant themed is my favorite. I'll even count fungi, even though they're not technically plants.
Brandon Kelly
>designated underdogs
Ryan Kelly
Not a Veeky Forums property, but the Charr from Guild Wars (specifically 2) have always been one of my favorite fantasy races design wise.
Brandon Clark
>draw a green halfling
>call it a goblin
That said, i DO like goblins.
Ian Reed
Dryads, ogres (especially if they're ogre-magish), harpies, gnolls, Dunmer, and any within-reason peaceful take on Skaven.
Crows too, but I already consider them a real-life race. Born, it's either human or crow. Take a pick.
Ethan Martin
Kenku and Aarakocra for the win
Jose Hernandez
Of these two body types, which do you prefer your medusa having? Legs or tail?
Gabriel Rodriguez
I choose option C
Even though it's the trap choice
Andrew Cooper
That is rather compelling!
Carter Foster
Nolan Morgan
I’m fond of cat-men mostly because of the Khajit
Nathaniel Kelly
A lot of the races in Agone are very well detailed and uniquely interesting. I'd recommend taking a look at it if it interests you (the game is out of print, but you can find the PDFs in the PDF share thread).
Angel Evans
>Catdudesa
It's the male counterpart of the Medusa
Elijah Hall
While not my favorite, I appreciate Rabbit people. I'd like to see this one explored more.
Jordan Wilson
Forgot pic related, Viera from Final Fantasy.
Carter Gonzalez
I dont know if they take #1 but I love centaurs to bits, really wish they didn't drop off the map so much in terms of fantasy races in media
Thomas Perry
There are many flavors of goblins, user. My personal favorite are bat-inspired goblins, although I've never seen them outside this one piece of artwork.
Jacob Evans
The old Hercules cartoon made me fall in love with Medusa
A for the initial monster, B for the playable half-Medusa race
David Green
I think both are good, desu
green halfling, or jewnosed trash-gremlin both play good roles and have interesting traits
I could easily see goblins that evolve to be more part of actual civilizations instead of one step above feral creatures developing more tamed traits, like wolves to domesticated dogs
Charles Phillips
Fairy, but as long as they have the mentality of a nac mac feegle.
So a pictsie.
Kayden Jenkins
My brotha
Thomas Ramirez
plants, robots, and bugs are three of my favorites and playable in almost all my settings.